Docs: Mention that backslash isn't allowed in regular expressions

[kurtmilam]

OK, it didn't take me long to figure this out, but it did slow me down a little, since regexes that I was sure would match the URL hash were coming up empty.

A short mention of the fact that backslashes aren't allowed would be great.

Even better would be to find a way to make them work, but if that isn't possible, a mention in the docs would be helpful.

Thanks!

[azicchetti]

Could you please provide an example so that we can try to make it work?

I guess that a single backslash would need to be escaped a couple of times in order to work with the router. For instance: A\B should (untested!) be matched by "A\\B"

[kurtmilam]

Do you want a working code sample?

Here's a hash / regex pair that doesn't work for me.

Hash: #somepage?id=1234 Regex: #somepage\?id=([\d]*)

The first backslash escapes the question mark. The second (\d) matches any digit (0-9).

[azicchetti]

Il 11/01/2012 23:10, kurtmilam ha scritto:

Do you want a working code sample?

Here's a hash / regex pair that doesn't work for me.

Hash: #somepage?id=1234 Regex: #somepage\?id=([\d]*)

In this circumstance I would try:

somepage[?]id=(\d+)

[kurtmilam]

Yes, that works fine.

I'd still suggest that you mention it in the docs, since the backshlash is such an important character in regular expressions.

Thanks for looking into it.

[azicchetti]

Absolutely! I've just updated the doc, thank you very much.