From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: regexp question: match anything but not a group? Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 23:30:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87zjk4louc.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396387812 8815 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2014 21:30:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:30:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 01 23:30:06 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WV6Fv-0003FU-Jv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 23:30:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34544 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WV6Fv-0005gq-5v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52823) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WV6FR-0005Uo-MP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WV6FK-0004Jl-7n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:29:33 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WV6FK-0004JS-1y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:29:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WV6FH-0005SD-Os for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 23:29:23 +0200 Original-Received: from g231226075.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.226.75]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 23:29:23 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231226075.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 23:29:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231226075.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZauTESg7Q+XqHun0y8eBL/NebKo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96909 Archived-At: Hi List, how can I write a regexp that acts like e.g. ,------ | ".*?" `------ but does not match a group like e.g. ,--------------------- | (regexp-quote "\\)") `--------------------- ? This works more or less but does not seem to be very robust ,--------- | "[^)]*?" `--------- since ')' could appear in other contexts than the group. How can I negate a specific group of characters and not only any occurence of single characters? -- cheers, Thorsten