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<HR><H2>Re: Regexp matching and escaping characters...</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thu Aug 24 14:43:54 1995
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From: brandon@avon.declab.usu.edu
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Aug 95 13:24:35 EDT."
             &lt;199508241724.NAA29689@altair.vv.com&gt; 
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 12:39:19 -0600

&lt; Ah, thankee.  Now I see why Pavel chose to use % as the escape character for
&lt; MOO regex.

This could be an option for upcoming regular expressions.  Does anybody have
any comments on doing the above?  Ala:

    "%$test" vs "\$test" (which actually has to be "\\$test")

Basically, either we we go it is rather abstract and wrong.  However, The more
I look at it "\\$" looks less wrong than "%$" ... (I tend to expect MOO or
whatever to search/replace %$ with something...).

-Brandon
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