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itimpi · 07-01-2011, 07:02 PM

A lot of punctuation characters have special meaning in regex, so if you want to match a real punctuation character you have to preceed it with a backslash. e.g. use \? to match a question mark.

07-01-2011, 07:02 PM	#3
itimpi Wizard Posts: 4,553 Karma: 950151 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Sony PRS-950, iphone/ipad (Marvin/iBooks/QuickReader)	A lot of punctuation characters have special meaning in regex, so if you want to match a real punctuation character you have to preceed it with a backslash. e.g. use \? to match a question mark.