Re: How do I get a ] into a reg exp?

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
>>
>>  
>>> How do I write
>>>
>>>    (re-search-forward "[a-z\]]")
>>>
>>> I mean how do I get the ] into the characters to search for? It works
>>> if I remove a-z. Looks like a bug to me.
>>>     
>>
>> \] is the same as ] in string syntax.  Anyway:
>>
>> (info "(emacs) Regexps")
>>
>>      To include a `]' in a character set, you must make it the first
>>      character.  For example, `[]a]' matches `]' or `a'.  To include a
>>      `-', write `-' as the first or last character of the set, or put
>>      it after a range.  Thus, `[]-]' matches both `]' and `-'.
>>
>>      To include `^' in a set, put it anywhere but at the beginning of
>>      the set.  (At the beginning, it complements the set--see below.)
>>
>>   
> Thanks. That was a surprise.

New surprise. I still can not get it to work. This is my actual search:

   (re-search-forward "'\\([][-+a-zA-Z~<>!;,:.'\"%/?(){}$^0|]\\)'" nil t)


The above version does not match [  -- in the parenthesis.