Corner quotes in Unicode

1 · John Cook · Jan. 9, 2022, 1:05 a.m.
In his book Mastering Regular Expressions, Jeffrey Friedl uses corner quotes to delimit regular expressions. Here’s an example I found by opening his book a random: ⌜(\.\d\d[1-9]?)\d*⌟ The upper-left corner at the beginning and the lower-right corner at the end are not part of the regular expression. This particularly comes in handy if a regular […] The post Corner quotes in Unicode first appeared on John D. Cook....