Re: regexp-builder shows matches, re-search-forward fails?

[Tassilo Horn]

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com> writes:

>> What's reb-copy?
>
> it copies the regexp from regexp-builder for use in an elisp function,
> thats what I need.

Ah, I didn't know that.  And you are using re-search-forward in a
program, not interactively.  Well, in that case, the regex syntax are
identically, i.e., you can kill the "<regex>" from the re-builder prompt
and yank it into (re-search-forward "<regex>" nil t) and it should just
work.

Bye,
Tassilo