From: Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>
To: throaway@yahoo.com
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Do POSIX classes work in regular expression searches?
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:24:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9B0A08E4-8570-4BFA-A273-12CEEE7FBDE4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.vy1sacw6zpgdil@hermione2008.sd.cox.net>
On Jul 22, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Mark S wrote:
>
> I've been trying to do some simple searches like:
>
> (query-replace-regexp "<span[:ascii:]*?</span>+" "test")
>
>
> or even the simpler
>
> (query-replace-regexp "[:ascii:]*" "test")
>
> and not getting anywhere. Emacs just looks for the characters ":acis" -- not for the POSIX character set of all ASCII characters. Trying it with other sets also got me nowhere. These character classes are listed in the Emacs documentation -- is there a trick to getting them to work?
Looks like you need two sets of brackets?
[[:ascii:]]*
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2011-07-23 1:12 Do POSIX classes work in regular expression searches? Mark S
2011-07-23 0:24 ` Perry Smith [this message]
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2011-07-23 3:19 Mark S
2011-07-23 7:14 ` Andreas Röhler
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