Regexes: How to handle escaped characters

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

I need some help with finding matches in a string that has some
characters which are marked as escaped (in a separate list of
indices).  Escaped means that they must not be part of any match.

My current approach is to look for matches in substrings with the
escaped characters as boundaries between the substrings.  However,
then ^ and $ in the patterns are treated wrongly.  (Although I use
startpos and endpos parameters for this and no slicing.)

Another idea was to have a special unicode character that never
takes part in a match.  The docs are not very promising regarding
such a thing, or did I miss something?

Any other ideas?

Tschö,
Torsten.

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