Re: Strange regexp behavior

It is written in perlre that all characters inside a character class are interpreted literally. Slashes have no effect, so you can't backreference with them. Try putting a # char in there...

Update: Aim at foot... special escapes are respected. Hmmm. Backreferences within a character class would be interesting.

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Re: Re: Strange regexp behavior by wine (Scribe) on Mar 26, 2002 at 13:02 UTC
Several people pointed out that `[^\1]` is not interpretated as I expected, i.e. "not the content of reference 1". But a `\t` is interpreted as a "tab", which you would expect. I guess a was fooled by that behavior. wine	[reply] [d/l]