Re: error with regular expression within package
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg86599] Re: error with regular expression within package
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:18:45 -0500 (EST)
On 3/13/08 at 4:31 AM, ramiro.barrantes at uvm.edu (ramiro) wrote: >This must be very simple. But with package below, I get the >following error: ><< test.m Syntax::stresc: Unknown string escape \w. >test.m: >BeginPackage["testing`"] test::usage="test[t]" Begin["`Private`"] >test[t_]:=StringCases[t,RegularExpression["\w+"]] Change the above to be test[t_]:=StringCases[t,RegularExpression["\\w+"]] If you look at the documentation for RegularExpression you will see all of the examples for classes of characters use a double backslash. >End[] >EndPackage[]