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Re: What's wrong with this code??


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this code??
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:08:53 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Ah... I see. Now I understand. So, basically, just a single '\'
> character in an elisp regexp string acts as if it wasn't even there in
> the first place.

Yes, except when it's a valid escape sequence, i.e. when the backslash
is followed by r, t, ^, C, M, 0-9, x, o, d, e, a, b, v, LF, n, ", s, u,
U, or f (and maybe a few more ;-).


        Stefan



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