From: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regex to match "define ABC-123-xyz"
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:18:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=ouNuKycHhMFTAO8a3bHUVdTTS5h5NuKF3ZK9=@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i84j3s$abl$1@dough.gmane.org>
2010/10/1 Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>:
> I'm having trouble with this, to say the least. "Obviously" the parts
> after the define aren't fixed, either in content or position. What I
> have tried is
>
> define [A-Za-z0-9_-]+
>
> (that is, match the string "define", followed by a single space,
> followed by some string consisting of letters and numbers plus "_" and
> "-") which works except... it doesn't match the numeric part(s). I can
> see this in the regexp builder, and, since I am attempting to match part
> of a programming language syntax, in source code. Kind of
> confusing. What have I done wrong, please?
>
Pardon me if I misunderstood, but it works perfectly fine for me in
re-builder. Are you saying it works for you in re-builder but not when
actually using it in code?
--
Deniz Dogan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-01 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-01 12:10 Regex to match "define ABC-123-xyz" Gary
2010-10-01 12:18 ` Deniz Dogan [this message]
2010-10-01 13:45 ` Gary
2010-10-01 15:23 ` rasmith
2010-10-05 6:47 ` Gary
2010-10-01 12:48 ` Tyler Smith
2010-10-01 13:42 ` Gary
2010-10-01 12:58 ` Tim Visher
2010-10-01 13:59 ` Erik L. Arneson
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1285942809.2643.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-01 16:04 ` rustom
[not found] <mailman.0.1285935054.30433.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-01 12:20 ` Marc Mientki
2010-10-01 12:26 ` David Kastrup
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