[PD-dev] zexy/[regex] : allow backslashes ?

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

Alexandre Quessy wrote:
> Hi IOhannes and the list,
> I am looking (and wrapping) zexy/[regex] and I was wondering if you
> could add a way to be able to use backslashes. They are very useful in
> regex, but pretty much forbidden in Pd. Though, I am not sure that
> they are so useful with POSIX regex, which is what zexy/[regex]
> uses.(#include <regex.h>) I suggest to use backticks as a backslash
> replacement, since they are allowed in pd. That is what I have done a
> little while ago in externals/aalex/pcre.c
> 
> An here is how I replace backticks by backslashes. (There are dozens
> of better ways to do this, of course)

i think it would be better to leave [regex] as it is, and code another 
external that does replacements on it's own.
something like [sed]...

[bi(.*)bo`1\   [92(
|              |
|  [symbol `(  [makefilename %c]
|  |           |
[sed           ]
|


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