On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Thomas N wrote:

>Dear Diego,
>
>Thank you for your reply.  I tried out your method, and the compiler
>does compile and pop up the error window.  However, after I double-click
>on the error message, a message pops up with:
>
>Unmatched '( or {'
>
>I think it has something to do with the Regular Expression (RE).  I
>copied exactly the way you have:
>
>^.*\([a-zA-Z]:[^]+\)\([0-9]+\]):
                               ^ missing \

I am NOT sure about the round braces needing escapes for bracketing
substrings. Normal regexp syntax requires escapes for round braces when
NOT used for bracketing like here. Therefore maybe this would work better:

^.*([a-zA-Z]:[^]+)([0-9]+):

Peter

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