Help Filtering Bracketed Expressions

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Help Filtering Bracketed Expressions

Postby Jorge » Mon Feb 04, 2002 2:10 pm

Given the use of [brackets] in RegEx, how does one go about filtering words that use brackets e.g. [test]

I've tried [[]test[]] that doesn't seem to work.

Suggestions woudld be appreciated.
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RE: Help Filtering Bracketed Expressions

Postby dexter » Mon Feb 04, 2002 2:38 pm

Use the backslash to escape the character. For example, to match [test] use \[test\].
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