Re: [pcre-dev] Treatment of \x5b and \x5d

On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Ze'ev Atlas wrote:

> It seems like the second pattern does not really contain any class. I
> tried it in Perl (5.18) on my Windows machine and the only thing that
> matches that second pattern was the string "[a-z]0-9]". And frankly,
> I did not expect otherwise! Basically using '\x5b' should be similar
> to using '\[', meaning that you want the actual '[' character rather
> than the special '[' meta-character. I may be wrong but I recall that
> this is how it was explained in the regex school.

Yes, that is absolutely right.

Philip

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Philip Hazel