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regexQuote -- escape special characters in regular expressions

Usage:

regexQuote s
Inputs:
- s, a string,
Outputs:
- a string, obtained from s by escaping all of the characters that have special meanings in regular expressions (\, ^, $, ., |, ?, *, +, (, ), [, ], {, }) with a \.

Description

i1 : match("2+2", "2+2")

o1 = false

i2 : regexQuote "2+2"

o2 = 2\+2

i3 : match(oo, "2+2")

o3 = true

See also

regular expressions -- syntax for regular expressions
regex -- evaluate a regular expression search
match -- regular expression matching

Ways to use regexQuote:

regexQuote(String)

For the programmer

The object regexQuote is a method function with a single argument.

The source of this document is in Macaulay2Doc/functions/regex-doc.m2:346:0.