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Re: error with regular expression within package

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg86584] Re: error with regular expression within package
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:56:34 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Uni Leipzig
• References: <frasa2$1fo$1@smc.vnet.net>
• Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Hi,


RegularExpression["\\w+"]

may help. Because Mathematica always want
a double backslash

Regards
   Jens

ramiro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This must be very simple.  But with package below, I get the following 
> error:
> 
> << test.m
> Syntax::stresc: Unknown string escape \w.
> 
> Thanks, ramiro
> 
> test.m:
> 
> BeginPackage["testing`"]
> test::usage="test[t]"
> Begin["`Private`"]
> 
> test[t_]:=StringCases[t,RegularExpression["\w+"]]
> 
> End[]
> 
> EndPackage[]
>