regexp bug (literal dot)

Willem Broekema willem@REDACTED
Mon Mar 25 23:57:28 CET 2002


Hi all,

 From what I understand, in regexps, "." means 'any char' and "\." means a 
literal dot.

So, the following is a bug:

170> regexp:match("a", ".").
{match,1,1}

171> regexp:match("a", "\.").
{match,1,1}  % shouldn't match!


- Willem




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