Wacek Kusnierczyk <[email protected]> writes:

> however, in that code the pattern was '[^\]]*' (with the idea that the
> character ']' is a metacharacter and therefore must be escaped). 

Inside bracket expressions the backslash is not special.  Thus '[^\]]'
is a pattern that matches a non-backslash character followed by ']', and
'[\]' does not qualify.

Andreas.

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