Regular expression change

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hutchinsfairy
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Regular expression change

Post by hutchinsfairy »

Just a heads up that the way Everything regex treats special characters within a character class has changed since I updated to v1.4.1.877.

Previously special characters inside a character class [] did not need escaping whereas now they do.

[^\] now needs to be [^\\] if you want to match a character other than a backslash for example.

It seems like this might represent a divergence from the POSIX interpretation.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/posixbrackets.html
void
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Re: Regular expression change

Post by void »

Everything 1.4 uses Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)

Previous versions used POSIX regex.

PCRE has consistant escaping rules:
Any non-special escapes are treated as literal.
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