[Mono-devel-list] Regular expression problem with characters '{' and '}'

[Eric Durand-Tremblay]

Jörg Rosenkranz a écrit :

>Hi all,
>
>I have a problem with regular expression using braces, i.e. "{\w+}".
>The Regex constructor throws an ArgumentException with this expression. MS.NET accepts
>this without problems. I know that braces are used for quantifiers.
>
>Is this a Mono bug or is the MS.NET runtime misbehaving?
>
>Thanks,
>Joerg.
>
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>
Correct me if I am wrong, but the only usage of braces, as you say, is 
for quantifiers ;
{n} {n,} {n,m} {n}? {n,}? {n,m}?
where 'n' and 'm' are integer.

What exactly are you trying to do.  Capturing group are between ()   
and non-capturing (?: )

I could be tempted to say that it is MS misbehaving but who am I to say 
so....

Eric Durand Tremblay
University Laval