bug#36251: Regex library doesn't recognize ']' in a character class

[tomas]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 07:08:06AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Abdulrahman Semrie <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I am using the pattern [\\[\\]a-zA-Z]+ to match a string with left or
> > right bracket in it [...]

> It turns out that there are several flavors of regular expressions in
> common use, with different features and syntax.  The link you provided
> is using PCRE (PHP) regular expressions (see the "flavor" pane on the
> left), and there are three other supported flavors on that web site.
> 
> Guile's (ice-9 regex) module provides a simpler flavor of regexps known
> as "POSIX extended regular expressions" [...]

D'oh! I forgot about Perl compatible regexps. In those, you /can/ escape
things with a backslash whithin [...]. This would have explained Abdulrhaman's
confusion better.

Thanks, Mark
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