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Re^3: separating two sententencesby AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) |
on Sep 16, 2011 at 04:45 UTC ( [id://926307]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
In this regex, the '(' and ')' (parenthesis) characters, which would normally be regex metacharacters marking the start and end of a capture group, are escaped by \ (backslash) characters that return them to being literal '(' and ')' characters. Again, see muba's analysis above Update: ...and reply below. (Missed that last \. Bad case of backslashitis.).
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