Re: Matching strings with non-word characters

[Tanktalus]

That's because \ is a special character. Thus, you need to escape it if you want it to appear literally. To escape it, just use a backslash - thus, you get m'X\\ '. Although I think the single-quote as a seperator is a bit wierd.

[chas]

Thanks! I used single quote as separator because I thought that would make the "\" not considered special. I guess that is wrong. (Using single quote prevents interpolation in patterns, though.)