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When writing up expressions, I used something like:

\.html

which should match on ".html" (so the period character is treated as a period instead of a special character used to mean "1 of any character at this position"). I think this is what the author told me to use.

However, according to http://www.newsbin.com/nb33help/regexp.htm, the quote character is the escape character, so my expression would be:

'.html

That just doesn't look right. Are both the quote and backslash used to denote "next character is a non-special character". Or is the backslash supposed to mean this and the quote actually does something else? Or is one deprecated and the other is the recommended mechanism?

Well, it might have worked that way in v3.3, but I think someone just screwed up the doc. It's the \ character in 4.x

I typically use [.]html. Meaning the literal character ".".