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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible to write 'beginning of line' in a String?
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:20:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjxhz3ts.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 515A93DE.9010306@easy-emacs.de

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> Am 02.04.2013 09:26, schrieb Thorsten Jolitz:
>>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> what is the (or rather - is there a) string equivalent to regexp "^abc"?
>> "\nabc" is not quite what I want.
>>
>
> You may express "Beginning of line followed by string 'abc'" in
> different ways. Depends from usage, your needs.
>
> rx macro delivers that wording of regexps
>
> Maybe tell what's inconvenient with "^abc"

I would need something that can be inserted as string, but is matched
only at beginning of line. 

,-----------------
| (insert "^abc ")
| ^abc
`-----------------

is not what I want, and "abc ", when used as regexp, is obviously
matched anywhere. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten




  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-02  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-02  7:26 Possible to write 'beginning of line' in a String? Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-02  8:11 ` Teemu Likonen
2013-04-02  9:22   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-02  8:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-02  9:20   ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2013-04-02  9:24     ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-04-02  9:41       ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-02  9:58         ` Thorsten Jolitz
     [not found]         ` <mailman.23288.1364897437.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-04-02 21:27           ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-04-03  7:06             ` Thorsten Jolitz

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