Re: Regular expressions and user-escaped characters

[Joost Kremers]

On 2 December 2024 23:51:49 Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 02 2024, Joost Kremers wrote:
> > You may get away with something like "[^\\][[]", though keep in mind that
> > that does not match a ?[ not preceded by a backslash, but rather a ?[
> > preceded by a character that is not a backslash.
>
> Mind you, what I forgot to mention: this means that a ?[ at the start of a
> string won't be found. A possible solution to that might be to prepend some
> character to the string before matching.

Or, try usimg \\| to match either a ?[ at the start ot the string or a ?[ 
preceded by a character other than a backslash...

\\(?:^[[]\\|[^\\][[]\\)

Whew...

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