From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regexp with match over multiple lines Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 14:35:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: <31548643.post@talk.nabble.com> <3266E1E3-8935-49EE-8102-212C84CBD81A@Web.DE> <31552210.post@talk.nabble.com> <31552810.post@talk.nabble.com> <32F9F98A-EF2D-4133-AB40-13D09B5FB9B8@Web.DE> <31557911.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304685345 30243 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2011 12:35:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 12:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: AngusC Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 06 14:35:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QIKFu-00008C-EI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 14:35:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41364 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIKFt-00009m-RC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 08:35:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40183) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIKFo-00009g-GO for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 08:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIKFn-0001IQ-Eg for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 08:35:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:33651) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIKFn-0001Hs-8k for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 08:35:31 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de ( [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E2518E1C3B7; Fri, 6 May 2011 14:35:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [91.40.64.11] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #2) id 1QIKFk-0005V3-00; Fri, 06 May 2011 14:35:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: <31557911.post@talk.nabble.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/aQSzM4fJkG3vOgNmaCSJfexMUv+jE+56YrNWr WOdydLU9jjGa6UN3Dyp2QOvpEjpyPqCjjc4vKq0M/ZhEUlVqFq LwFmN4UKmzIiJxRPUCSA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 217.72.192.234 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80946 Archived-At: Am 06.05.2011 um 13:10 schrieb AngusC: > Anyway, I don't understand what the " bit in there is doing It was just a mark for the borders (start and end) of the regexp. =20 Without them it is: ]+> The particle, in borders, "[^>]" means: every character except ">", to =20= make the expression less greedy. -- Greetings Pete "Evolution" o __o _o _ =B0\___o /0~ -\<, ^\___ /=3D\\_/-% oo~_______ /\ /\______/ \_________O/ O_______________o=3D=3D=3D>-->O--o___= _