Re: regex variable

On Thursday, July 18, 2013 3:42:06 PM UTC+2, shawn wilson wrote:
> Is there a way of using a variable in a regex?
>
> I'm constantly looking for the first octet of IP addresses, so I do:
> /[^0-9\.]10\.
>
>
>
> What I've been doing is hitting / and up arrow and then edit but if I
> could store [^0-9\.] in something easily accessed, that would save
> some time.

Slightly off-topic, but wanted to make you aware that [^\.] matches anything that isn't a dot AND IS NOT A BACKSLASH. IOW backslash is not escaping the dot inside the [] range.

Cheers,
Lech

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