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Re: How do I search for 9001 or 4001


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: How do I search for 9001 or 4001
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:06:52 -0400
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In article <ur4qy8vj3.fsf@verizon.net>, Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net> 
wrote:

> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
> > 4001\|9001 will work. Emacs uses basic regular expressions, which
> > means that the extended regexp operators have to be escaped. This
> > means you have to use \(, \|, and \) instead of (, |, and ).
> 
> Live & learn.  I never thought of \| as an escaped |.  I thought it
> was an approximation to the logicians' $\vee$ for "or".

Then what are \( and \)?

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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