From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regexp question: match anything but not a group?
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:53:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3b5pjb0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 533E5326.5080900@easy-emacs.de
Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
> Am 03.04.2014 21:36, schrieb Thorsten Jolitz:
>> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
>>
>>> Am 01.04.2014 23:30, schrieb Thorsten Jolitz:
>>>>
>>>> Hi List,
>>>>
>>>> how can I write a regexp that acts like e.g.
>>>>
>>>> ,------
>>>> | ".*?"
>>>> `------
>>>>
>>>
>>> BTW looks wrong. .* might much nothing, if non-greedy it remains
>>> nothing (?)
>>
>> But it still seems valid to protect against greedyness?
>>
>
> Coming upon evaluating this, cursor at start of "asdf":
>
> (progn (looking-at ".*")(message (match-string-no-properties 0)))asdf
>
> ==> asdf
>
> (progn (looking-at ".*?")(message (match-string-no-properties 0)))asdf
>
> ==> ""
Yes, it seems you are right ... so this is actually always wrong?
Thanks for the tip ...
--
cheers,
Thorsten
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-01 21:30 regexp question: match anything but not a group? Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-01 23:24 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-04-03 19:48 ` Thorsten Jolitz
[not found] ` <mailman.18864.1396554426.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-03 20:24 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-04-03 21:36 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-02 5:55 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-03 19:36 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-03 22:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-04 8:39 ` Thorsten Jolitz
[not found] ` <mailman.18896.1396600696.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-04 9:04 ` Loris Bennett
2014-04-04 9:37 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-04 10:40 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-04 14:11 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-04 6:37 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-04 8:53 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2014-04-02 7:21 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-02 8:07 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-03 10:50 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-03 23:46 ` Bob Proulx
2014-04-04 8:43 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-03 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-03 19:32 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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