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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: regex reserved chars
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 21:17:04 +0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:18:19 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 2/6/2013 7:28 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
>> I have always treated $ ( ) * + -. ? [ \ ] ^ { | }
>> as reserved regex chars.
>> I can't find any docs that say the list is different inside[  ].
>> is it?
> 
> Typical it is.
> 
> Regex syntax vary a bit between implementations.
> 
> So one should study the documentation.
> 
> java.util.regex.Pattern has an excellent JavaDoc.
>
That's normally the first place I look, but it doesn't answer Roedy's 
question - apart, that is, from referring to the dead tree O'Reilly book. 
Expanding the 'Character Classes' description in the Pattern class-level 
documentation or linking to an online source would be more useful than 
the implied suggestion of buying the book from Amazon and then waiting 
for delivery.
  

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