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Old 10-04-2015, 11:39 AM   #18
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Correct. See: http://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html


Brackets are special characters, which say "treat everything in between as a character set, and match on any".
Escaping with a backslash turns them into literal (plain old text) brackets.
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