From: Peter Vanderhaden <bostonantifan@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T02:39:11+09:00
Subject: Regular expression help needed

I'm trying to write a regular expression for a ruby program.  What it
needs to match is:

      0,,\a   where 0 is any digit, then 2 commas, a backslash, then any
letter.

I have one that works if the expression didn't have the backslash (which
isn't an escape character, but a literal character):

if $inrec =~ /[[:digit:]],,[[:alpha:]]/

I've tried

if $inrec =~ /[[:digit:]],,\\[[:alpha:]]/

and

if $inrec =~ /[[:digit:]],,\[[:alpha:]]/

but neither works.  Any ideas would be appreciated!
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