On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:19:44PM +0100, Markus Mottl wrote:
> I know it looks awful, but the four backslashes in the regexp
> pattern for re2 indeed only stand for one. They have to be escaped
> in the OCaml-string and also for PCRE again,
> i.e. twice. Substitution patterns use the $-sign for escaping -
> therefore escaping only needs to be done once.

Another reason to hasten the addition of regular expressions to the
OCaml lexer, 'a la Perl!

Rich.

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