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
next prev parent 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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