From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid (Nuno J. Silva)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regular expression
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:35:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pr4y1hxl.fsf@monolith.local.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7s5bu9Fg2iU1@mid.individual.net
Burkhard Schultheis <burkhard.schultheis@web.de> writes:
> I want to search for the following string: A hyphen not surrounded by
> spaces. Therefore I tried the following pattern:
> [^ ]-[^ ].
> But this pattern finds a hyphen preceded by a letter and followed by a
> newline character, too.
>
> How to exclude the newline character? I tried
> [^ ]-[^ \n]
> but that does not work. Why? And how to search for this?
I made up some test text in a buffer, and tried search-forward-regexp
with
[^ ]-[^ \n]
and
[^ ]-[^
]
The second one works here. It has the result of hitting C-q C-j, instead
of \n, because there are other places where emacs won't match a newline
with \n, and needs this.
--
Nuno J. Silva
gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-25 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-25 11:00 regular expression Burkhard Schultheis
2010-01-25 12:35 ` Nuno J. Silva [this message]
2010-01-25 12:53 ` Helmut Eller
2010-01-26 19:46 ` Nuno J. Silva
2010-01-25 16:34 ` Burkhard Schultheis
2010-01-25 18:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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2014-06-30 20:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-30 20:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-30 20:36 ` Teemu Likonen
[not found] ` <mailman.4605.1404160609.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-30 20:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-30 21:04 ` Teemu Likonen
[not found] ` <mailman.4609.1404162300.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-30 21:11 ` Emanuel Berg
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2014-06-30 23:14 Tak Kunihiro
[not found] <mailman.4622.1404173952.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-02 8:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-07-02 13:10 Tak Kunihiro
2014-07-02 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-02 23:14 Tak Kunihiro
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