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I should be fired too... '.' != '\.'.

I'm put in mind of the old Zawinski quote:

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think \"I know, I'll use regular expressions.\" Now they have two problems. "




Obviously he meant [.|.], which is redundant on so many levels.




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