doh, I now understand your question, you don't mean the asterisk literally,
but as any character that follows a backslash... sorry -_-
that's right ;) -- anyway, thanks for your effort!
my problem was that i misunderstood the escape-the-meta-char-idea (see below).
Am Mittwoch, 01.10.03 um 23:23 Uhr schrieb Curt Zirzow:
'\\' always gets translated to '\' So the string:
'/(\\)/' translates to '/(\)/' which is an invalid regex, you'll get a complaint about unclosed paren.
this is also a bit tricky:
echo "beg \\ end\n"; echo "beg \ end\n";
klugscheisser ;)c) Why do I hate regular expressions so much?
perhaps because you're using them wrong.
I've answered all 5 of em so far.thanks, your answers helped a lot!
- jns
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