From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>,
"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:15:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB5488F7758DBBA24283695D4EF3489@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgfachuf.fsf@dataswamp.org>
> > HELLO=WORLD
> > I want to downcase the part before the equal (=) sign.
>
> (while (re-search-forward "\\(.+\\)\\(=\\)" nil t)...
In most cases you don't want the first group to match
any `=' chars, in which case it should be something
like \([^=]+\).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-16 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-08 8:10 query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign Pankaj Jangid
2022-09-08 9:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-16 15:15 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2022-09-18 15:24 ` [External] : " Emanuel Berg
2022-09-08 10:49 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-09-08 11:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-09 4:11 ` Pankaj Jangid
2022-09-09 5:10 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-09-09 7:46 ` Pankaj Jangid
2022-09-09 9:26 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-09-09 12:50 ` Pankaj Jangid
2022-09-09 12:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-09-10 16:05 ` Pankaj Jangid
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