Escaping characters
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By default, searches use
RE2 regular expressions.
To escape characters so they aren't treated as part of a regular expression,
use the \ character. For example, the following example searches for the term
main.java.
main\.java
For more information see Additional syntax options
in the reference documentation.
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Last updated 2023-10-03 UTC.
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