9 Sep
2004
9 Sep
'04
10:50 a.m.
It's not an escape for ".", it's a general escape. Most escape systems work that way so that you can escape anything if you are unsure what chars it's needed for.
/ Peter Bortas
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2004-09-09 16:45: Subject: Re: Bug in replace
what has not been asked yet is:
why is there an escape for .? they are not special characters in strings.
for a moment i thought this could be to help simplify arguments to regexps, but that can't be as the escape will be replaced before the regexp handler sees it.
so when was . introduced and to what end?
greetings, martin.
/ Brevbäraren