I am using the pattern [\\[\\]a-zA-Z]+ to match a string with left or right 
bracket in it. However, the string-match function doesn’t match the ‘]’ 
character. To demonstrate with an example, try the following funciton:

(string-match "[\\[\\]a-zA-Z]+" "Text[ab]”)

The result for the above function should have been a match structure with 
Text[ab] matched. However, the string-match returns #f which is incorrect. To 
test if the pattern I am using was right, I tried on regex101.com and it works. 
Here (https://regex101.com/r/VAl6aI/1) is the link that demonstrates that it 
works.

Hence, the above leads me to believe there is a bug in the regex library that 
mishandles ] character in character-classes

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Regards,

Abdulrahman Semrie

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