Any questions involving matching text strings to patterns - the pattern is called a "regular expression."
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CallumD
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by CallumD »
I know a fullstop means "any character", but what does \. mean?
*edited to fix the direction of the slash.
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CallumD on Thu May 04, 2006 2:13 am, edited 1 time in total.
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CallumD
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by CallumD »
I see, a literal fullstop, and the backslash is an "escape". I get it.
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Oren
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by Oren »
Yep, you are right
