I have a small issue getting a regex to work the way I want it to. I set a string to the following:
And then I want to alternate through the command line options by comparing against a list of flags that I'm looking for. Say:
So I want to do the following:
(if (find (append "-" o "s*(w*)(s*-|$)") command-line 0)
(do-something with $1)
)
)
However I don't get a match because the append takes out the "" before the s & w. when I try to escape the "" I get "\s" or "\w", which also does not match. So my question is, how can I escape a backlash for an append to output only a singular ""?
Thanks in advance,
--maq
try
(append "-" o {s*(w*)(s*-|$)})
in which I replaced the double-quote string delimiters with left and right brace string delimiters,
instead of
(append "-" o "s*(w*)(s*-|$)")
Using braces instead of double-quotes removes the need to treat the backslash characters with special care.
-- sam
Thanks Sammo. That does the trick.
--maq