[TextMate] Syntax Highlighting regex question

James Spahr james at spahr.org
Wed Oct 6 22:58:38 UTC 2004


I'm a bit confused by this from the help book:

A regular expression which is used to identify the portion of text to 
be styled. Example: "\\<(true|false)\\>".

How is this different from:  "(true|false)"

in other words what are the < and > doing in the regex?

James.




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