Yeah, I'm inclined to think it's an error in the docs. > On Sep 18, 2019, at 14:43 , Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev > <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: > >>> I don't see why / is a meta character. >>> It does not appear anywhere else in the documentation as metacharacter. >> >> In some languages "/" is used as the delimiter to begin/end a regular >> expression, for example in sed where the substitution command is >> "s/old/new/". > > Right, good point - same in vi and vim (the editor). > >> >> So perhaps the underlying regex parser ignores "/" characters at the >> start/end of the regex unless they're quoted? > > Maybe, but I couldn't find any hint in the docs. > > >> Is it used to refer to groups in text replacement? Sometimes that's a dollar >> sign, sometimes a slash, but I thought it was a backslash > > Good point , but > - IIRC, vim, at least, uses backslash for that, e.g., \1 ,\2, etc.; > - furthermore, NSRegularExpression does not do any text replacement by > itself, as far as I can see? > > > Oh well, right now , I just don't escape any / , and it seems to work just > fine. > > > Best regards, Gabriel > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rmann%40latencyzero.com > > This email sent to rm...@latencyzero.com
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