On 25Jun2021 18:41, Chuck Martin <unicorn+m...@sdf.org> wrote: >I don't think there's another way. That's the way I do it, anyway, but >I don't bother with the [^@], using .* instead. I also have the whole >thing in double quotes, and the backslashes are doubled for some reason. >I don't remember why I had to do that, but it is probably necessary, or >it wouldn't work for me (the doubled backslashes, I mean).
That will be the quotes. You want a single backslash in your regexp. In quotes some sequence \x means something (eg \n meaning a newline character and of course \\ to mean a backslash) so you need a double backslash in the quotes to get a single backslash in the post-quote value. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
