[julia-users] Re: How to detect an starts with "\" in a text

[Steven G. Johnson]

On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 7:13:19 PM UTC-7, Eric Forgy wrote:
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> julia> ismatch(r"^\\","\\indent")
> true
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Much faster to do 

     startswith("\\indent", '\\') 

rather than using a regular expression for a simple test like this.