Re: Regex to match "define ABC-123-xyz"

[Marc Mientki]

Am 01.10.2010 14:10, schrieb Gary:
> I'm having trouble with this, to say the least. "Obviously" the parts
> after the define aren't fixed, either in content or position. What I
> have tried is
>
> define [A-Za-z0-9_-]+
>
> (that is, match the string "define", followed by a single space,
> followed by some string consisting of letters and numbers plus "_" and
> "-") which works except... it doesn't match the numeric part(s).

Here (GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1) 
everything works as expected:
M-C-s define [A-Za-z0-9_-]+
matches entire "define ABC-123-xyz".

regards
Marc