Prathamesh Kulkarni <bilbotheelffri...@gmail.com> writes: > a) I am not able to follow why 3 slashes are required here > in x_.\\\(D\\\) ? Why does x_.\(D\) not work ?
Two of the three backslashes are eaten by the tcl parser. But actually only two backslashes are needed, since the parens are not special to tcl (but are special to the regexp engine, so you want a single backslash surviving the tcl parser). > b) The expression after folding would be of the form: > t2_<digit> = x_<digit>(D) - y_<digit>(D) > I have used the operator "." in the pattern to match digit. > While that works in the above case, I think a better > idea would be to match using [0-9]. > I tried the following but it does not work: > t_[0-9] = x_[0-9]\\\(D\\\) - y_[0-9]\\\(D\\\) > Neither does \\\[ and \\\] work. Brackets are special in tcl (including inside double quotes), so they need to be quoted. But you want the brackets to appear unquoted to the regexp engine, so a single backslash will do the Right Thing. See tcl(n) for the tcl parsing rules. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
