regex escapes

Alex Folland lexlexlex at gmail.com
Wed Feb 16 06:55:33 PST 2011


On 2011-02-16 5:48, spir wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Which characters are to be escaped:
> * inside [] classes
> * outside such classes
> ?
>
> Also, is there for D regexes a "free form" format (where whitespace can
> be used to present formats more legibly, but must be escaped as literals)?
>
> Denis


This is a comment in a regular expression: (?#comment)

The text, "comment", can be replaced with anything including whitespace. 
  The comment is terminated with ).

Oh, never mind.  I just tested this.  std.regex doesn't support regex 
comments, apparently.  :(


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