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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Determining existence of text following point
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 13:07:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210518110743.GC11623@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-02e5c765-73a4-42ad-82ed-f4446927204c-1621332522549@3c-app-mailcom-bs13>

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On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:08:42PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> How is it that the following returns nil?
> 
> (setq sa (string-match "[^[:blank:]]" "     "))

Because you stated to match any non-blank character and there
are only blank characters to match.

Cheers
 - t

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-18 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-17 21:46 Determining existence of text following point michael-franzese
2021-05-17 22:02 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-05-17 22:31   ` michael-franzese
2021-05-17 23:05     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-05-17 23:15       ` michael-franzese
2021-05-17 23:36         ` Skip Montanaro
2021-05-18  0:09         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-05-18  0:37           ` michael-franzese
2021-05-18  8:24           ` michael-franzese
2021-05-18  8:56           ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18  9:31             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18  9:42               ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18  9:54               ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 10:08                 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18 11:07                   ` tomas [this message]
2021-05-18 11:26                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18 11:56                       ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 12:23                         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18 12:35                           ` tomas
2021-05-18 12:50                             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18 12:02                       ` tomas
2021-05-18 12:15                         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18 12:27                           ` tomas
2021-05-18 12:43                             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18 12:44                             ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 12:28                         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18 12:47                           ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 20:50             ` michael-franzese
2021-05-18 22:04               ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 22:17               ` Jean Louis
2021-05-19  7:28                 ` michael-franzese
2021-05-19  8:05                   ` michael-franzese
2021-05-19 10:23                   ` Jean Louis
2021-05-19 10:32                     ` michael-franzese
2021-05-19 12:31                     ` michael-franzese
2021-05-17 23:53       ` michael-franzese
2021-05-18  8:47     ` Jean Louis

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