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Date:	Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:58:30 -0500
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Subject:	Re: cygcheck and literal plus sign
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 05:59:16PM -0600, Steven Penny wrote:
>Searching for the popular compiler produces unexpected results
>
>    $ cygcheck -p 'g++.exe'
>    Found 0 matches for g  .exe
>
>    $ cygcheck -p 'g\+\+.exe'
>    Found 0 matches for g\ \ .exe
>
>How can I include a literal '+' (plus character) in my search?

By remembering that this is a regex search.  How do you quote special characters
in regexes?  Answer: With a '\'.

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