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Reputation: 889

Regex literal in Frege

What is an unicode code for grave accent mark used to specify regex literal in Frege?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 62

Answers (1)

Marimuthu Madasamy
Marimuthu Madasamy

Reputation: 13541

The character is called Acute Accent and the unicode for that is 00B4. In ubuntu, you can type that using Ctrl+Shift+u and then type 00B4 then space. However you don't really have to use that if your regex literal is more than one character in which case you can just use apostrophes.

Quoting the doc:

Regular expression literals have type Regex and are written:

 ´\b(foo|bar)\b´       -- string enclosed in grave accents
 '\w+'                 -- string with length > 1 enclosed in apostrophes
The notation with the apostrophes has been introduced because many have a hard time entering a grave accent mark on their terminal. However, it is not possible to write a regular expressions with length 1 this way, because then the literal gets interpreted as Char literal. (One can write something like '(?:X)' for a Regex that matches a single 'X').

Upvotes: 2

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