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RE: newb rexeg question


From: Bingham, Jay
Subject: RE: newb rexeg question
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:25:58 -0500

On: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:57 PM Steve Throckmorton wrote:

> ... why does this:
> 
> ...
> (re-search-forward "^[a-z]...$")
> ...
> 
> insist on matching the word "Abba"

Because the variable `case-fold-search' is not set to `nil'.  Read about
search and case in info.  (C-h i mem [ret] msea [ret] msea [ret])

Newbies should really make friends with the info pages.

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