Re: Trouble with regexp

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, TLS!

On Thu, 22 May 2008, TheLonelyStar wrote:


> 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 :(.

Are you sure your regexp is what you think it is?  If you are typing it 
into an elisp program, you need to write:

    "\\(foo\\|bar\\)"

.  If you've done C-M-s and are typing into the minibuffer, you don't 
double the quotes.

> Thanks!
> Nathan

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