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When specifying the regular expression, use a raw [string literal][] (backticks) instead of an interpreted string literal (double quotes) to simplify the syntax. With an interpreted string literal you must escape backslashes.

Go's regular expression package implements the [RE2 syntax][]. The RE2 syntax is a subset of that accepted by [PCRE][], roughly speaking, and with various [caveats][]. Note that the RE2 `\C` escape sequence is not supported.

[PCRE]: https://www.pcre.org/
[RE2 syntax]: https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Syntax/
[caveats]: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp3.html#caveats
[string literal]: https://go.dev/ref/spec#String_literals