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Re: Strange behavior in search-forward-regexp?
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Strange behavior in search-forward-regexp? |
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Sun, 12 Feb 2006 04:58:53 -0500 |
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In article <m27j825iw0.fsf@gmail.com>,
Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> wrote:
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
> > Because the regular expression . matches any character except newline,
> > while [^;] matches any character except ';'. So newline matches [^;].
>
> So what happens is that the match begin at the empty line then and
> then "wraps around" to the next row? How can I avoid it?
Use [^;<newline>] in the regular expression, where <newline> is entered
with C-q C-j.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: Strange behavior in search-forward-regexp?, Peter Dyballa, 2006/02/11