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Escaped meta character

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Last modified: 03 December 2024

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:

New in 2017.1