[thelist] Escaping Parenthesis in RegExp

Howard Cheng howcheng at ix.netcom.com
Fri Mar 8 18:18:13 CST 2002


Use the backslash to escape special characters, including parentheses.

At 04:08 PM 3/8/2002 -0800, Robert Goodyear wrote:
>I'm having some trouble escaping the left and right parenthesis characters
>when
>building a Regular Expression.
>
>I'm using UltraEdit32, and its syntax claims that I should use ^ to escape
>special characters, but I'm having no luck. Anyone come across this one?

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