Escaped meta character
Reports escaped meta characters. Some RegExp coding styles specify that meta characters should be placed inside a character class, to make the regular expression easier to understand. This inspection does not warn about the meta character [, ] and ^, because those would need additional escaping inside a character class.
Example:
After the quick-fix is applied:
Locating this inspection
- By ID
Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.
RegExpEscapedMetaCharacter- Via Settings dialog
Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.
New in 2017.1
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By default bundled with: | CLion 2024.2, DataGrip 2024.2, DataSpell 2024.1, GoLand 2024.2, IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2, JetBrains Rider 2024.2, PhpStorm 2024.2, PyCharm 2024.2, Qodana for .NET 2024.2, Qodana for Go 2024.2, Qodana for JS 2024.2, Qodana for JVM 2024.2, Qodana for PHP 2024.2, Qodana for Ruby 2024.2, RubyMine 2024.2, WebStorm 2024.2 Writerside 2024.1 |
Can be installed with plugin: | IDEA CORE, 241.SNAPSHOT |