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Re: Trouble with regexp
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Trouble with regexp |
Date: |
Thu, 22 May 2008 18:31:37 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
TheLonelyStar <nabble@lonely-star.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I some trouble with regular expression. I thought, the regexp "\(foo\|bar\)"
> should match either foo and bar.
> But if I have a buffer with "foo" in it, the regexp build does not match it
> with that :(.
It does here. You are probably not doing the right quoting. Please
remember that the Lisp string syntax requires quoting of quote marks and
backslashes on _top_ of what quoting your regexps will need.
So please post the actual code that fails instead of talking about it.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum