Q: slashes in slash strings

[grkuntzmd]

If I want to include slashes ('/') in slash-quoted strings, do I need to escape them with backslashes? In other words, if I need to create a Regex that matches a *nix-like path, should I use /x\/y/ or /x/y/?

Thanks.

[Alex Greif]

I think you cannot use slashy strings in this case. Try it with
pattern Strings like this:
groovy:000> p = ~"/home/me/"
===> /home/me/
groovy:000> p.class
===> class java.util.regex.Pattern

Alex.

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:40 PM, grkuntzmd <grk@...> wrote:

> If I want to include slashes ('/') in slash-quoted strings, do I need to
> escape them with backslashes? In other words, if I need to create a Regex
> that matches a *nix-like path, should I use /x\/y/ or /x/y/?
>
> Thanks.
>
> G. Ralph Kuntz, MD
> Chief Software Architect
> meridianEMR, Inc.
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[Robert Fletcher]

Yes, you can escape them. They're just another string delimiter, they
don't mean anything special in relation to regular expressions. If
you're using regex matching on paths like that I'd consider using
single or double quote delimiters as the regex string will be much
more readable.

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:40 PM, grkuntzmd <grk@...> wrote:
> If I want to include slashes ('/') in slash-quoted strings, do I need to
> escape them with backslashes? In other words, if I need to create a Regex
> that matches a *nix-like path, should I use /x\/y/ or /x/y/?
>

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