From: Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RegExp: match everything except a certain string
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:36:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wssc7iz3.fsf@kamaloka.dhatu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711201850.02854.andreas.roehler@online.de> (Andreas Röhler's message of "Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:50:02 +0100")
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Hello Andreas
Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
>> author = {somename},
>> editor = {},
>> title = {sometitle},
>> subtitle = {},
>> series = {},
>> url = {}
>>
>> I want to find a regexp that matches every line with empty {} except
>> of the "subtitle line". I've come that far:
>>
> Got it with:
>
> [^s]?[^u]?[^b]?[^t]?[^i]?[^t]?[^l]?[^e] = {},?$
>
> Please don't ask why :)
That's working. Thanks. (I don't ask.)
> Anyway--you will know that and it's not the precise
> answer-- it might be useful to point at
>
> M-x shell-command-on-region
>
> grep {} | sed /subtitle/d
>
> as an easy-to-use solution.
It's a good idea to use a sed pipe. But it doesn't matter how much
there is to type, since I need the expression for a function. So I
only have to type it once.
Greetings
Sven
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-20 16:08 RegExp: match everything except a certain string Sven Bretfeld
2007-11-20 17:50 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-11-20 20:36 ` Sven Bretfeld [this message]
2007-11-20 21:05 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-20 21:31 ` Sven Bretfeld
[not found] ` <mailman.3846.1195590989.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-28 16:19 ` Sven Utcke
2007-11-28 21:22 ` Malte Spiess
[not found] ` <mailman.3839.1195580948.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-30 16:26 ` Stefan Monnier
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