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Bug 7739 – regex fails to accept \p in expression of unicode properties

Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: INVALID
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: phobos
Product: D
Version: D2
Platform: All
OS: All
Creation time: 2012-03-19T19:47:00Z
Last change time: 2012-03-20T03:16:50Z
Assigned to: nobody
Creator: jayn

Comments

Comment #0 by jayn — 2012-03-19T19:47:00Z

dmd 2.058 win7-64 void wcp (string fn) { enum ctr = ctRegex!("\p{WhiteSpace}","m"); } ------ Build started: Project: a7, Configuration: Release Win32 ------ Building Release\a7.exe... a7.d(210): undefined escape sequence \p

Comment #1 by dmitry.olsh — 2012-03-20T03:16:50Z

It's jsut wrong bug report, D string literal as C one do have escaping of their own, use raw string literals or double escape \\. It's dmd lexer that complains here btw.