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From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex: \(.*\)\([a-zA-Z]+\)$ - not working as expected
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:45:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj71mej0.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874mp9nt7l.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> AngusC <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have text like this:
>>
>> some description here Status1
>> some other description Status2
>> some other interesting description Status1
>>
>> I am using regex like this:
>>
>> \(.*\)\([a-zA-Z]+\)$
>>
>> with replacement text:
>>
>> \1 ZZZ \2
>>
>> And what I expected was:
>>
>> some description here ZZZ Status
>> some other description ZZZ Fault
>> some other interesting description ZZZ Status
>>
>> But instead I got:
>>
>> some description here Statu ZZZ s
>> some other description Faul ZZZ t
>> some other interesting description Statu ZZZ s
>>
>> I want my expected outcome, how do I do that?
>>
>> What was wrong with my regex?
>
> Your first group is matching right up to the last penultimate character

Sorry, that should just be "the penultimate character".

> and the second is match the last character.  Try adding a patter to
> match a space between your groups.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris

-- 
Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de


  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-25 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2015-03-25 12:43 ` regex: \(.*\)\([a-zA-Z]+\)$ - not working as expected Loris Bennett
2015-03-25 12:45   ` Loris Bennett [this message]
2015-03-25 12:27 AngusC
2015-03-25 12:50 ` K.P. Huang
2015-03-25 12:54 ` Yuri Khan
2015-03-25 14:16   ` AngusC
2015-03-25 12:57 ` tomas

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