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Peculiar Behavior in Quoted Strings

Coming from the world of CP/M and DOS rather than Unix, I almost never used regular expressions; the extended wildcards in TCC generally did everything that I needed. Lately, however, after seeing how others use regular expressions, I've started to experiment with them.

And that has led to my noticing something that I find very peculiar.

The help text goes to great lengths to describe two ways to pass strings that have special characters.

Double Quotes​


A string can be enclosed in...

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