regex question

regex question

[upro]

This might be a stupid question:

I want to use M-x replace-regexp like this

s/[a-z]''/$1"/g

the first part [a-z]'' works, but then the mathed lowercase letter is
not reinserted, but a litteral $1.

How does that work in emacs-regex? I don't find the relevant info in
the info file...

Of course I could use \w'' - but I want to know how it works!

Thank You In Advance...

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Re: regex question

[Danilo Segan]

upro wrote:
> This might be a stupid question:
> 
> I want to use M-x replace-regexp like this
> 
> s/[a-z]''/$1"/g
> 
What are you, a Perl guy? :-)

Better try:
s/\([a-z]\)''/\1"/g

Cheers,
Danilo

Re: regex question

[upro]

Danilo Segan <danilo@kvota.net> writes:

> upro wrote:
>> This might be a stupid question:
>> I want to use M-x replace-regexp like this
>> s/[a-z]''/$1"/g
>>
> What are you, a Perl guy? :-)
>
> Better try:
> s/\([a-z]\)''/\1"/g

Got me - I'm a Perl guy...

I apparently forgot to backslash the parentheses....

Thanks a lot, Michael

>
> Cheers,
> Danilo
>

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Re: regex question

[Jesper Harder]

upro <upro@gmx.net> writes:

> I want to use M-x replace-regexp like this
>
> s/[a-z]''/$1"/g

I'm not sure what this means, but I assume you want to replace stuff
like a'' with a".

> the first part [a-z]'' works, but then the mathed lowercase letter is
> not reinserted, but a litteral $1.
>
> How does that work in emacs-regex? I don't find the relevant info in
> the info file...

You could do:

   `M-x replace-regexp RET \([a-z]\)'' RET \1" RET'

Regexp syntax in Emacs is described in <info://emacs/Regexps>.

Re: regex question

[Kai Großjohann]

upro <upro@gmx.net> writes:

> I want to use M-x replace-regexp like this
>
> s/[a-z]''/$1"/g

In Emacs, you need to use \1 instead of $1, I think.  (You may have
to use \\1.)

Also, \1 always refers to a matching parenthesis, and square brackets
are not regarded as parens for this purpose.  So you need to say
\([a-z]\) if you use it interactively and \\([a-z]\\) if you use it
from Lisp.
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Re: regex question

[Barry Margolin]

In article <87znljuide.fsf@web.de>, upro  <upro@gmx.net> wrote:
>This might be a stupid question:
>
>I want to use M-x replace-regexp like this
>
>s/[a-z]''/$1"/g
>
>the first part [a-z]'' works, but then the mathed lowercase letter is
>not reinserted, but a litteral $1.

If you want to grab a part of the matched text, you should use \<digit>,
etc.; $<digit> is Perl's equivalent, but most other regexp packages use
\<digit>.

Also, you need to put parentheses around the part that you want it to
remember.  So it should be:

Old: \([a-z]\)''
New: \1"

>How does that work in emacs-regex? I don't find the relevant info in
>the info file...

File: emacs,  Node: Regexp Replace

Regexp Replacement
------------------

   The `M-x replace-string' command replaces exact matches for a single
string.  The similar command `M-x replace-regexp' replaces any match
for a specified pattern.

   In `replace-regexp', the NEWSTRING need not be constant: it can
refer to all or part of what is matched by the REGEXP.  `\&' in
NEWSTRING stands for the entire match being replaced.  `\D' in
NEWSTRING, where D is a digit, stands for whatever matched the Dth
parenthesized grouping in REGEXP.  To include a `\' in the text to
replace with, you must enter `\\'.  For example,

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regex question

[Dave Pawson]

I have text reading 'try>Letter'  e.g. 'try[A'
and I want to do a search/replace using regex.

I want to replace it with 'try text>A

I.e. I want to retain the group ([A-E])
so that the finished text reads 'try text>A

Does emacs regex support groups please?

TIA

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Re: regex question

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.09.2007 um 19:11 schrieb Dave Pawson:

> Does emacs regex support groups please?

Yes: \(first group\)some\(second group\)thing\(third group\) -> some 
\3other\2thing\1too

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Re: regex question

[Tassilo Horn]

"Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com> writes:

> I have text reading 'try>Letter'  e.g. 'try[A'
> and I want to do a search/replace using regex.
>
> I want to replace it with 'try text>A
>
> I.e. I want to retain the group ([A-E])
> so that the finished text reads 'try text>A
>
> Does emacs regex support groups please?

Sure it does.

M-x replace-regexp \(try\)\(\>.\) RET \1 text\2 RET

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Re: regex question

[Dave Pawson]

On 02/09/07, Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:

> > I.e. I want to retain the group ([A-E])
> > so that the finished text reads 'try text>A
> >
> > Does emacs regex support groups please?
>
> Sure it does.
>
> M-x replace-regexp \(try\)\(\>.\) RET \1 text\2 RET

\1 to insert the text!
Yet another case where emacs can do it, just need to find out how!

Many thanks Tassilo.
No Harald, I'd tried the book and failed.
I'll try the info file now.

Thanks to you and Peter for the response.

regard



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Re: regex question

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>:

> I have text reading 'try>Letter'  e.g. 'try[A'
> and I want to do a search/replace using regex.

I'm confused.  Is that '[' above a typo, or do you have some problem
that is more complicated than it looks?

> I want to replace it with 'try text>A
>
> I.e. I want to retain the group ([A-E])
> so that the finished text reads 'try text>A
>
> Does emacs regex support groups please?

Yes.  I assume you have checked the info file that comes with emacs?
There is a whole section devoted to regular expressions.  The answer
you seek seems to be in a separate section (Regexp Backslash), at
least in the version I am currently using.

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