Is it used to refer to groups in text replacement? Sometimes that's a dollar sign, sometimes a slash, but I thought it was a backslash.
> On Sep 18, 2019, at 13:51 , Jens Alfke via Cocoa-dev > <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: > > > >> On Sep 18, 2019, at 1:45 PM, Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev >> <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: >> >> I don't see why / is a meta character. >> It does not appear anywhere else in the documentation as metacharacter. > > In some languages "/" is used as the delimiter to begin/end a regular > expression, for example in sed where the substitution command is "s/old/new/". > > So perhaps the underlying regex parser ignores "/" characters at the > start/end of the regex unless they're quoted? > > —Jens > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rmann%40latencyzero.com > > This email sent to rm...@latencyzero.com -- Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
