RE: Why does '#' start a comment in regular expression

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Subject: RE: Why does '#' start a comment in regular expressions with 'x' modifier flag? How can I match '#'?
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:04:24 -0000

> Now I found out that, at least with Saxon (not sure of 
> others), the '#' 
> character is considered a comment delimiter when the 'x' flag (ignore
> whitespace) is ignored. Furthermore, it does not appear 
> possible to escape the '#' character. 
> 

What version of Saxon are you using (and on what platform)? I think there
was a bug in this area in earlier releases but that it works correctly in
Saxon 8.8.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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