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(Regexp Special): Use @samp for regular expressions that are not in

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Luc Teirlinck 2006-03-11 21:23:11 +00:00
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@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ never remove the special meaning of @samp{-} or @samp{]}. So you
should not quote these characters when they have no special meaning
either. This would not clarify anything, since backslashes can
legitimately precede these characters where they @emph{have} special
meaning, as in @code{[^\]} (@code{"[^\\]"} for Lisp string syntax),
meaning, as in @samp{[^\]} (@code{"[^\\]"} for Lisp string syntax),
which matches any single character except a backslash.
In practice, most @samp{]} that occur in regular expressions close a
@ -485,8 +485,8 @@ regular expression may try to match a complex pattern of literal
@samp{[} and @samp{]}. In such situations, it sometimes may be
necessary to carefully parse the regexp from the start to determine
which square brackets enclose a character alternative. For example,
@code{[^][]]} consists of the complemented character alternative
@code{[^][]} (which matches any single character that is not a square
@samp{[^][]]} consists of the complemented character alternative
@samp{[^][]} (which matches any single character that is not a square
bracket), followed by a literal @samp{]}.
The exact rules are that at the beginning of a regexp, @samp{[} is