Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problems with Perl regular expression (PCRE) and tethereal

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:12:35 -0800
Guy Harris wrote:
This appears to be a \ vs. \\ issue, although I'm not sure why \\ works and \ doesn't.
Ethereal's parser for filter expressions supports escaping in strings, so that a string containing a double-quote character can be represented as "This is \"quoted\"". That means that if you want a backslash in a string, you have to represent it as \\.