Never mind, I figured out it was an escaping issue. This is all fine if you
do Regex("\\d\\d").
On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 5:27:17 PM UTC-8, John Brock wrote:
>
> regex_from_macro = r"\d\d"
> regex_from_function = Regex("\d\d")
>
> julia> regex_from_macro("45")
> true
>
> julia> regex_from_function("45")
> false
>
> julia> regex_from_macro("5")
> false
>
> julia> regex_from_function("5")
> false
>
>
> Why does calling r"\d\d" result in different behavior than Regex("\d\d")?
> I would have expected the behavior to be identical, but it looks like call
> with Regex(...) always returns false, while r"..." matches as expected.
>
>
> This is with Julia v0.4.2.
>
