wish: string with other quoting then \

Or you figure out an alternative rexexp syntax, which doesn't use a magic ... ;-)

Just like you can confifure rexexp applications like perl and sed to use an arbitrary regexp terminator, perhaps you could configure the regexp engine to use an arbitrary escape character?

/ Niels Möller (igelkottsräddare)

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2003-09-21 13:15: Subject: wish: string with other quoting then \

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If I could wish, I think I'd wish for an alternative string syntax in Pike, that doesn't use \ to quote. It's so hairy writing advanced regexps if you have to quote the . :)

Is it a bad idea? It should be quote possible to do, if we could spare some syntax for it (and maybe figure out another quote character).

/ Mirar