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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 11:53:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgfachuf.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k06e477o.fsf@codeisgreat.org

Pankaj Jangid wrote:

> I have a line like this,
>
> HELLO=WORLD
>
> now I want to downcase the part before the equal (=) sign.

(while (re-search-forward "\\(.+\\)\\(=\\)" nil t)
  (replace-match
   (concat (downcase (match-string-no-properties 1))
           (match-string-no-properties 2) ) t))
;; We=
;; Are=
;; Robots=

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-08  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-08  8:10 query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign Pankaj Jangid
2022-09-08  9:53 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-09-16 15:15   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-09-18 15:24     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-08 10:49 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-09-08 11:16   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-09  4:11   ` Pankaj Jangid
2022-09-09  5:10     ` Tassilo Horn
2022-09-09  7:46       ` Pankaj Jangid
2022-09-09  9:26         ` Tassilo Horn
2022-09-09 12:50           ` Pankaj Jangid
2022-09-09 12:56             ` Tassilo Horn
2022-09-10 16:05               ` Pankaj Jangid

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