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2124 :: Specifying a literal "

• axben (orginal) [2016-03-15T18:20:05+01:00] view original

  I wonder how I would specify an RE consisting of only a literal " in the shortest way; so far I've got:

  var a = re"""""""
  var b = re(r""""""")
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  a "solution" which requires seven "s...

  I think (unless there's another syntax), it would be nice to be able to specify any character in place of the " as the string delimiter, like e.g.

  var a = re/"/
  var b = re(r+"+)
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• perturbation2 (orginal) [2016-03-17T02:50:29+01:00] view original

  You can always escape it within the regex (as long as you're not using a 'raw' string):

  var a_literal_quote = re("\"")
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