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Re: Word boundary anchors \< and \> not parsed correctly on the right si
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Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão |
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Re: Word boundary anchors \< and \> not parsed correctly on the right side of =~ |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:15:51 -0300 |
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NeoMutt/20171215 |
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 09:09:06AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> In this context, the backslashes serve only to "quote" the less-than
> and greater-than signs. It's just like writing
>
> [[ 'foo bar' =~ "<"foo">" ]]
You're absolutely right ! I wasn't looking at it from this angle, but yes, \ is
just another form of quoting.
> In order to put a backslash-that-acts-like-a-backslash-to-the-regex-engine
> inside the RE on the right-hand side of =~ you need to put the RE into a
> variable.
Lesson learned, thanks !
Re: Word boundary anchors \< and \> not parsed correctly on the right side of =~, Chet Ramey, 2018/07/10