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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>The backslash character as escape doesn't work as expected.</div>
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<div style="padding-left:19pt;">Erlang R15B (erts-5.9) [smp:4:4] [async-threads:0]</div>
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<div style="padding-left:19pt;">Eshell V5.9 (abort with ^G)</div>
<div style="padding-left:19pt;">1> String = "/* this is a C comment */".</div>
<div style="padding-left:19pt;">"/* this is a C comment */"</div>
<div style="padding-left:19pt;">2> re:run(String, "/\*.*?\*/").</div>
<div style="padding-left:19pt;">** exception error: bad argument</div>
<div style="padding-left:19pt;"> in function re:run/2</div>
<div style="padding-left:19pt;"> called as re:run("/* this is a C comment */","/*.*?*/")</div>
<div style="padding-left:19pt;">3> re:run(String, "/\\*.*?\\*/").</div>
<div style="padding-left:19pt;">{match,[{0,25}]}</div>
<div style="padding-left:19pt;">4> </div>
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<div>Best regards</div>
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<div>PS. The documentation in "erl5.9/lib/stdlib-1.18/doc/html/re.html" says: </div>
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<div>".. the pattern</div>
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<div>/\*.*?\*/</div>
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<div>does the right thing with the C comments."</div>
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