From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: search for any two consecutive uppercase characters
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:09:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c63cramic.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4a84058c$0$303$14726298@news.sunsite.dk
"Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>> Horacio Suarez <horaciosuarez@hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello all:
>>>
>>> Is there a way to search for any two consecutive uppercase characters? In example "PÉREZ" or
>>> "GONZÁLEZ"
>>
>> Yes, this is difficult, because of the accented letters. There is no
>> [:upper:] in emacs regular expressions. It might be possible to build
>> a syntax table or something to identify uppercase letters including
>> accented ones, but AFAIK, there's nothing built in. The simpliest
>> would be to prepare a regular expression explicitely listing all the
>> characters you'd want, something like:
>>
>> "\\<[A-ZÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ]+\\>"
>>
> Isn't
> C-u C-s (aka isearch-forward-regexp)
> [A-ZÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ]\{2,\}
> better?
FSVO "better".
> here \{2,\}
> means two (or more) of the preceding expression.
They don't mean the same.
My expression means: words containing only uppercase letters.
Your expression means: any occurence of two or more consecutive uppercase letters.
Is 0x42AB a word? (I'd say no, it's a number in C syntax for hexadecimal).
Is NeXTstep a word? (Yes, but it's not all uppercase).
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
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2009-08-12 22:38 ` search for any two consecutive uppercase characters Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-12 23:11 ` A.Politz
2009-08-14 3:50 ` doitian
2009-08-15 12:01 ` Horacio Suarez
2009-08-13 12:23 ` Colin S. Miller
2009-08-13 13:09 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2009-08-13 14:13 ` Horacio Suarez
2009-08-13 17:24 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.4515.1250173016.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-13 21:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-08-12 22:25 Horacio Suarez
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