On 12/3/11 6:00 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
I think the common intuitive rules regarding escapes in regexes are as follows:1) Unescaped punctuation usually has special meaning (so people often escape all punctuation literals)
I am only a causal user of regexen, and I agree that this is what seems intuitive to me – in fact, I just used [^\(] to match non-brackets in my editor today.
David