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<main><div class="width-limiter"><nav class="sub"><form class="search-form"><span></span><div id="sidebar-button" tabindex="-1"><a href="../regex_syntax/all.html" title="show sidebar"></a></div><input class="search-input" name="search" aria-label="Run search in the documentation" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false" placeholder="Click or press ‘S’ to search, ‘?’ for more options…" type="search"><div id="help-button" tabindex="-1"><a href="../help.html" title="help">?</a></div><div id="settings-menu" tabindex="-1"><a href="../settings.html" title="settings"><img width="22" height="22" alt="Change settings" src="../static.files/wheel-7b819b6101059cd0.svg"></a></div></form></nav><section id="main-content" class="content"><div class="main-heading"><h1>Function <a href="index.html">regex_syntax</a>::<wbr><a class="fn" href="#">is_meta_character</a><button id="copy-path" title="Copy item path to clipboard"><img src="../static.files/clipboard-7571035ce49a181d.svg" width="19" height="18" alt="Copy item path"></button></h1><span class="out-of-band"><a class="src" href="../src/regex_syntax/lib.rs.html#260-266">source</a> · <button id="toggle-all-docs" title="collapse all docs">[<span>−</span>]</button></span></div><pre class="rust item-decl"><code>pub fn is_meta_character(c: <a class="primitive" href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.76.0/std/primitive.char.html">char</a>) -> <a class="primitive" href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.76.0/std/primitive.bool.html">bool</a></code></pre><details class="toggle top-doc" open><summary class="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><div class="docblock"><p>Returns true if the given character has significance in a regex.</p>
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<p>Generally speaking, these are the only characters which <em>must</em> be escaped
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in order to match their literal meaning. For example, to match a literal
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<code>|</code>, one could write <code>\|</code>. Sometimes escaping isn’t always necessary. For
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example, <code>-</code> is treated as a meta character because of its significance
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for writing ranges inside of character classes, but the regex <code>-</code> will
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match a literal <code>-</code> because <code>-</code> has no special meaning outside of character
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classes.</p>
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<p>In order to determine whether a character may be escaped at all, the
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<a href="fn.is_escapeable_character.html" title="fn regex_syntax::is_escapeable_character"><code>is_escapeable_character</code></a> routine should be used. The difference between
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<code>is_meta_character</code> and <code>is_escapeable_character</code> is that the latter will
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return true for some characters that are <em>not</em> meta characters. For
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example, <code>%</code> and <code>\%</code> both match a literal <code>%</code> in all contexts. In other
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words, <code>is_escapeable_character</code> includes “superfluous” escapes.</p>
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<p>Note that the set of characters for which this function returns <code>true</code> or
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<code>false</code> is fixed and won’t change in a semver compatible release. (In this
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case, “semver compatible release” actually refers to the <code>regex</code> crate
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itself, since reducing or expanding the set of meta characters would be a
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breaking change for not just <code>regex-syntax</code> but also <code>regex</code> itself.)</p>
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<h2 id="example"><a href="#example">Example</a></h2>
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<div class="example-wrap"><pre class="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><span class="kw">use </span>regex_syntax::is_meta_character;
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<span class="macro">assert!</span>(is_meta_character(<span class="string">'?'</span>));
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<span class="macro">assert!</span>(is_meta_character(<span class="string">'-'</span>));
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<span class="macro">assert!</span>(is_meta_character(<span class="string">'&'</span>));
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<span class="macro">assert!</span>(is_meta_character(<span class="string">'#'</span>));
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<span class="macro">assert!</span>(!is_meta_character(<span class="string">'%'</span>));
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<span class="macro">assert!</span>(!is_meta_character(<span class="string">'/'</span>));
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<span class="macro">assert!</span>(!is_meta_character(<span class="string">'!'</span>));
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<span class="macro">assert!</span>(!is_meta_character(<span class="string">'"'</span>));
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<span class="macro">assert!</span>(!is_meta_character(<span class="string">'e'</span>));</code></pre></div>
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