Regular expression help needed

[Peter Vanderhaden]

I'm trying to write a regular expression for a ruby program. What it
needs to match is:

0,,\a where 0 is any digit, then 2 commas, a backslash, then any
letter.

I have one that works if the expression didn't have the backslash (which
isn't an escape character, but a literal character):

if $inrec =~ /[[:digit:]],,[[:alpha:]]/

I've tried

if $inrec =~ /[[:digit:]],,\\[[:alpha:]]/

and

if $inrec =~ /[[:digit:]],,\[[:alpha:]]/

but neither works. Any ideas would be appreciated!

 

[Sebastian Hungerecker]

I'm trying to write a regular expression for a ruby program. What it
needs to match is:

0,,\a where 0 is any digit, then 2 commas, a backslash, then any
letter.
...
I've tried

if $inrec =~ /[[:digit:]],,\\[[:alpha:]]/
...
but neither works.

Works here.

puts "Works!" if '0,,\a' =~ /[[:digit:]],,\\[[:alpha:]]/

Works!

 

[Peter Vanderhaden]

Sebastian, right you are! I must have made a typo. Sorry about that!

but neither works.

Works here.

puts "Works!" if '0,,\a' =~ /[[:digit:]],,\\[[:alpha:]]/

Works!