Re: Quoting of parentheses in regular expressions
=- Lars Hecking wrote on Thu 23.Jul'09 at 12:19:53 +0100 -=
> Rocco Rutte writes:
> > * Lars Hecking wrote:
> > > The subject line starts with "RC(ci): [string]". Problem is, I
> > > cannot get any combination of "'\ to recognise the parentheses
> > > and square brackets as non-special. E.g. neither of
> >
> > I think you need to double-escape the brackets:
> >
> > save-hook '~s RC\\(ci\\):\ \\[string\\]' +foo
> >
> > as upon parsing it, mutt strips one level of \.
>
> That's it! Thanks! Plus the double quotes ...
>
> save-hook '~s "RC\\(ci\\): \\[string\\]"' =bla
See also 'PatternQuoting' on the mutt-wiki.
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