Re: Reg Expressions Escape Characters

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"Neil Collier [ES]" <[email protected]> writes:

> I would like to know if the regular expression library has a built in
> way to tell the regular expression compiler to treat the input string in
> a strict fashion, so that treats all metacharacters as literals
> automatically.  If not I guess I would write a small routine to insert
> an escape (\) character in front of every string before sending it as
> input.

Not sure I'm getting this Neil. The input string is the input for a
regular expression?? So it's not the re itself?

The input string is always taken literally.

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Berend de Boer
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