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From: "Bingham, Jay" <jay.bingham@hp.com>
Subject: RE: newb rexeg question
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:25:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <72A87F7160C0994D8C5A36E2FDC227F507A7405F@txnexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net> (raw)

On: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:57 PM Steve Throckmorton wrote:

> ... why does this:
> 
> ...
> (re-search-forward "^[a-z]...$")
> ...
> 
> insist on matching the word "Abba"

Because the variable `case-fold-search' is not set to `nil'.  Read about
search and case in info.  (C-h i mem [ret] msea [ret] msea [ret])

Newbies should really make friends with the info pages.

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             reply	other threads:[~2003-10-23 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-23 20:25 Bingham, Jay [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-23 19:56 newb rexeg question Steve Throckmorton
2003-10-23 20:08 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-24  7:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-10-24 19:19   ` David Vanderschel
2003-10-24 19:59     ` Stefan Monnier

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