There are often subtleties to patterns posted that baffle me. So nice to have
a welcoming community that I can learn from.
So thanks indeed Neil and Kaveh.
On Saturday, October 28, 2023 at 7:16:50 AM UTC-7 Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
> Thank you for the detailed response Neil. I stand corrected on
Thank you for the detailed response Neil. I stand corrected on that detail.
I normally use regex directly so no need to escape...
Of course regex is already a headache to read, and escaping backslashes etc
makes it doubly so...
Regards
Kaveh
On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 15:05, Neil Faiman wrote:
>
> On Oct 28, 2023, at 6:29 AM, Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
>
> But I believe that in other environments, e.g. other programming languages,
> you sometimes need to escape. I think sometime with \" and sometimes ""
>
The problem is that
Regular expressions themselves are a moderately complex
Hi Tim
You are right that in BBEdit both escaped and unescaped versions worked. I
was sloppy and escaped just one. So nothing magical, just being
inconsistent!!
But I believe that in other environments, e.g. other programming languages,
you sometimes need to escape. I think sometime with \" and
