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Re: quote removal issues within character class
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: quote removal issues within character class |
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Sat, 09 Nov 2019 17:14:53 +0100 |
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On Nov 09 2019, L A Walsh wrote:
> On 2019/11/09 04:49, Robert Elz wrote:
>> There's also
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>> The special characters '.', '*', '[', and '\\'
>> (<period>, <asterisk>, <left-square-bracket>, and <backslash>,
>> respectively) shall lose their special meaning within a bracket
>> expression.
>>
> ----
> Is this really what the standard says, because '\\' is not a character, but
> 2 characters. They could use "\\" but if a backslash is between single
> quotes, it loses its special meaning.
This is C notation, not shell notation.
Andreas.
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Re: quote removal issues within character class, Chet Ramey, 2019/11/13