Regular expression escape characters

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Thu Mar 29 22:33:53 EDT 2012


> The "!" is escaped with the backslash (\) and then the use of {3,} means "3 of the previous character", so:

Sorry, {3,} means "3 or MORE of the previous character"… if you only want to match 3 characters, you need to use {3,3}:

    \!{3,3}


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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