Re: [vox-tech] regex help - matching literal []

["Micah J. Cowan" <miMAPScah@cowan.name>]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:25:41PM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> On Friday 28 April 2006 01:07 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> ...
> > However, the compiler complains when I escape the square brackets with a
> > backslash.  For some reason \[ doesn't match a literal [.
> 
> Sounds like you need to double up on the backslashes -- once for the
> compiler's parsing of string literals, and once for the regex parser.

You could also use "[[].*]".

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Micah J. Cowan
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