David Champion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 24 May 2000:
> I briefly tried using parens in a regexp way -- e.g.,
> ~L (alice|bob|carol)
> but that doesn't seem to work at all.
I didn't look into this deeply, but just to throw an idea out --
did you try something like:
^~L (alice|bob|carol)
?
> parens just to see what happens, I get "Unmatched ( or \(".
That sounds like a parson problem... Hmm, yes, if you escape the ()'s,
then you need to escape the |'s too, or else they will be seen as as
separating patterns, as opposed to separating expressions within a
single pattern.
Regards,
Mikko
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