Re: Why is / a metachar in regular expressions ?
Re: Why is / a metachar in regular expressions ?
- Subject: Re: Why is / a metachar in regular expressions ?
- From: Rick Mann via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:50:39 -0700
Yeah, I'm inclined to think it's an error in the docs.
> On Sep 18, 2019, at 14:43 , Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> I don't see why / is a meta character.
>>> It does not appear anywhere else in the documentation as metacharacter.
>>
>> In some languages "/" is used as the delimiter to begin/end a regular
>> expression, for example in sed where the substitution command is
>> "s/old/new/".
>
> Right, good point - same in vi and vim (the editor).
>
>>
>> So perhaps the underlying regex parser ignores "/" characters at the
>> start/end of the regex unless they're quoted?
>
> Maybe, but I couldn't find any hint in the docs.
>
>
>> Is it used to refer to groups in text replacement? Sometimes that's a dollar
>> sign, sometimes a slash, but I thought it was a backslash
>
> Good point , but
> - IIRC, vim, at least, uses backslash for that, e.g., \1 ,\2, etc.;
> - furthermore, NSRegularExpression does not do any text replacement by
> itself, as far as I can see?
>
>
> Oh well, right now , I just don't escape any / , and it seems to work just
> fine.
>
>
> Best regards, Gabriel
>
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