re: regular expression escaping

by makc3d 27 Apr 2011

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wh0 at 28 Apr 2011 04:43
thanks, I'm going to go with /[\\]u0064/
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// forked from wh0's regular expression escaping
package {
    import com.actionscriptbible.Example;
    import flash.utils.describeType;
    public class FlashTest extends Example {
        
        public function FlashTest() {
            // Use a regular expression to find \u0064
            
            // something like this:
            var re:RegExp = /\\[u]{1}0064/;
            
            trace('source: ' + re.source);
            
            var str1:String = '\\u0064';
            trace('test string 1: ' + str1);
            trace('should be \\u0064: ' + re.exec(str1));
            var str2:String = 'foo5bar';
            trace('test string 2: ' + str2);
            trace('should be null: ' + re.exec(str2));
        }
        
    }
}