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		macintux on Aug 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learn Regex the Easy Way Erlang requires doubling up on escape backslashes, which generally causes me grief even after I flail about and finally remember it. Subtleties abound.

pjtr on Aug 10, 2017 [–]

Another strange one is the (old) Visual Studio syntax with its :i (actually often quite helpful) and $1 instead of \1 (even in the new syntax).

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2k3te2cs(v=vs.110)....

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