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

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On Thu, Jul 26 2012, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:

> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> What is your value of `reb-re-syntax'.  Is it in read format?
>
> yes. 
>
> But I think I got confused, because I used re-search-forward in a while
> loop and tried to replace the matches, but the REPLACEMENT didn't work,
> the search did - the message "search-failed" was only from the last
> iteration in the while loop when no matches were left. 

Just a note, the second optional argument to re-search-forward is
NOERROR: set to 't', it will allow the search to halt quietly. I kind of
wish that was the default.

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