From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-01-12T15:13:59+09:00
Subject: subbing English vars into code text (was: RE: Another suggestion forFreeRIDE)

Hi --

On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Jack Dempsey wrote:

> ok, i can see the problem, what do you suggest for the solution? a check to
> see if its not enclosed in []'s? are there other situations?

My example included one case where it's not included in [], as well as
one where it is:

>   re = /[abc$!]$/
                 ^^
Also strings can of course contain arbitrary characters....

I don't think you can do this with just a bulk replacement.


David

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