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From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex question
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:30:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873axw2a3h.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.176.1188753116.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com> writes:

> I have text reading 'try>Letter'  e.g. 'try[A'
> and I want to do a search/replace using regex.
>
> I want to replace it with 'try text>A
>
> I.e. I want to retain the group ([A-E])
> so that the finished text reads 'try text>A
>
> Does emacs regex support groups please?

Sure it does.

M-x replace-regexp \(try\)\(\>.\) RET \1 text\2 RET

Bye,
Tassilo
-- 
Früher haben wir vor dem Essen  immer gebetet, aber jetzt hat meine Frau
einen Kochkurs gemacht.

       reply	other threads:[~2007-09-02 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.176.1188753116.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-02 18:30 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2007-09-03  6:52   ` regex question Dave Pawson
2007-09-02 18:44 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-09-02 17:11 Dave Pawson
2007-09-02 18:31 ` Peter Dyballa
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-19 14:21 upro
2003-05-19 15:52 ` Danilo Segan
2003-05-19 17:20   ` upro
2003-05-19 16:18 ` Jesper Harder
2003-05-19 16:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-19 19:07 ` Barry Margolin

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