Re: regexp word boundaries

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 12:16:57AM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> 
> It's long been a pet peeve of mine that regexp matching for word
> boundaries has an annoying dependency on the implementation.

It is just one of many regexp inconsistencies, isn't it?  Sometimes
a backslash-escape is required, sometimes one is not required, for
important characters like +, |, and (). And backslashes themselves may
require backslash-escaping.

Dave

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