Re: smiley regexp problem

[Rajsekar]

LENNART BORGMAN <address@hidden> writes:

>
> Maybe you could add a complemented character set to the first one after the 
> smile (with whatever slashes there are needed to get this to work): [^)] 


The point is about \\W.  \\W matches any character that is not a
word-constituent.  I want `:-)' to become a smile if it is followed by any
of `\\W' but not ')'.  If I put it as "\\(:-?)\\)[^)]", then even strings
like "smile_within:-)strings" also get smileys.  So I am looking for a way
to specify "characters in \\W but no ')' in the language of regexps".


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    Rajsekar Manokaran
    IIT Madras