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From: Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: elisp: Replacing dots in strings (. -> \.)
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:07:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wfjszmz.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2fy3zt499.fsf@nschum.de


    Jeronimo Pellegrini <j_p@aleph0.info> wrote:
    > (replace-regexp-in-string "\\." "\\\." "aaa . bbb" t t)
    >       ==> "aaa \\. bbb"

To preserve your sanity, and that of anyone who reads your code, I beg
you to use the fabulous "rx" package (it's already in your Emacs --
nothing to install!)

(replace-regexp-in-string (rx ".") "\\." "aaa . bbb" t t)
            ==> "aaa \\. bbb"

-- 
Покажи мне твой .emacs, и я скажу, кто ты.
        -- Russian Proverb

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-08 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-08 11:10 elisp: Replacing dots in strings (. -> \.) Jeronimo Pellegrini
2007-07-08 13:27 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2007-07-08 15:07   ` Eric Hanchrow [this message]
2007-07-08 17:25   ` Jeronimo Pellegrini

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