[mkgmap-dev] How can I test if "(" or ")" is part of name

Mon Jul 28 10:02:18 BST 2014

Hi Felix,

the normal escape character is the backslash \.
See also 
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html

Gerd

> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:33:25 +0200
> From: extremecarver at gmail.com
> To: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Subject: [mkgmap-dev] How can I test if "(" or ")" is part of name
> 
> I have a problem that I cannot escape brackets when trying to find out 
> if they are part of the name...
> 
> name ~ '.*('    { }
> is not working of course. However ^ is not able to escape a bracket...
> name ~ '.*^('    { }
> 
> 
> Is there any way to find out if there is a () in a name?
> (the reason for this is that I want to know in Japan if the name is only 
> in Japanese, or in Japanese (English).
> 
> -- 
> keep on biking and discovering new trails
> 
> Felix
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