From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: error in replace-match: "args out of range"
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:35:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA0529A.8020500@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikqeOrW=U=CUnAeHV8bOM=UGSdUug@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/09/2011 02:44 AM PJ Weisberg wrote:
> On 4/8/11, ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:
>> On 04/07/2011 07:25 PM Tim X wrote:
>>> This was my point of warning. It is quite possible to have
>>> regexps where sub expressions are not found, but the overall regexp
>>> succeeds.
>> I'm having a hard time with that concept. Is there a small bit of
>> example code you could show it with?
>
> "I am\\( not\\)? a fish."
>
> -PJ
And on what sort of string would that RE match but the subexpression
have the value nil (as opposed to the null string "")?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-09 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.3.1301227401.14102.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-28 15:38 ` error in replace-match: "args out of range" Stefan Monnier
2011-03-28 18:50 ` ken
2011-03-28 20:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-03 22:02 ` ken
2011-04-03 23:19 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-04-04 16:13 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.1.1301933608.12491.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-04 22:21 ` Tim X
2011-04-07 16:29 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1302193756.25199.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-07 23:25 ` Tim X
2011-04-09 4:56 ` ken
2011-04-09 6:44 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-04-09 12:35 ` ken [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.2.1302352549.29796.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-09 12:57 ` David Kastrup
2011-04-09 20:04 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-04-09 21:25 ` Perry Smith
2011-04-05 1:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-06 3:39 ` error in replace-match: "args out of range" [SOLVED] ken
2011-04-07 14:00 ` ken
2011-04-07 19:09 ` PJ Weisberg
[not found] ` <mailman.14.1302203359.27822.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-24 1:20 ` David Combs
2011-04-24 5:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-09 1:32 ` David Combs
[not found] ` <mailman.9.1302184849.3726.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-10 2:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-27 12:02 error in replace-match: "args out of range" ken
2011-03-27 18:25 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.3.1301250397.12231.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-27 19:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-03-27 20:12 ` ken
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