On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 05:59:16PM -0600, Steven Penny wrote: >Searching for the popular compiler produces unexpected results > > $ cygcheck -p 'g++.exe' > Found 0 matches for g .exe > > $ cygcheck -p 'g\+\+.exe' > Found 0 matches for g\ \ .exe > >How can I include a literal '+' (plus character) in my search?
By remembering that this is a regex search. How do you quote special characters in regexes? Answer: With a '\'. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple