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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: ingvar <ingvar@nanosi.com>
Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Serching for pattern down one column
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:43:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FC7B1C13-8972-4260-A9CC-053A4BC6C80F@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20673287.post@talk.nabble.com>


Am 25.11.2008 um 01:59 schrieb ingvar:

> I now want to search for the pattern "111" in a column (it should  
> find the
> pattern in column 2 rows 2-4 and column 3 rows 3-5). Does anyone  
> know how to
> do it?


I think it's *not* possible to write *one* regular expression to find  
the occurrence in *any* column, though it's possible to write n  
regexps to find the occurrence in exactly one of the n columns.

--
Greetings

   Pete

A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like  
to do. Why? ...In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care  
to live.
				– Bradford Angier







  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-25 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-25  0:59 Serching for pattern down one column ingvar
2008-11-25 13:54 ` Paul R
2008-11-25 15:43 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.1221.1227627817.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-25 16:29   ` Chris McMahan
     [not found] <mailman.1210.1227616965.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-25 13:47 ` aartist

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