From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: newb rexeg question
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:08:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F98353A.9050208@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vpgcnt47b9tp6e@corp.supernews.com
Steve Throckmorton wrote:
> I know this is going to end up with me looking stupid, but why does this:
>
> ...
> (re-search-forward "^[a-z]...$")
> ...
>
> insist on matching the word "Abba" in this word list:
>
> ...
> abates
> abating
> Abba
> abbe
> abbey
> ...
>
> I would think it would find "abbe".
>
> I'm trying to match non-capitalized, four-letter words, and this is
> ticking me off. Please tell me what I'm missing.
C-h v case-fold-search
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-23 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-23 19:56 newb rexeg question Steve Throckmorton
2003-10-23 20:08 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-10-24 7:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-10-24 19:19 ` David Vanderschel
2003-10-24 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-23 20:25 Bingham, Jay
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