From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines? Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 10:26:11 +0300 Message-ID: References: <8735a6cj2k.fsf@mbork.pl> <87y1rxix4e.fsf@dataswamp.org> <871qpodgzn.fsf@mbork.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28742"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.7+37 (a90f69b) (2022-09-02) Cc: Emanuel Berg , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 27 08:27:31 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ozC4Y-0007JW-QE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2022 08:27:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ozC3q-00029O-BO; Sun, 27 Nov 2022 02:26:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ozC3o-00029B-H6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2022 02:26:44 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ozC3m-00022O-LG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2022 02:26:44 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.4.96]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000055D86.0000000063831131.00003408; Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:26:40 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Marcin Borkowski , Emanuel Berg , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871qpodgzn.fsf@mbork.pl> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: 16 X-Spam_score: 1.6 X-Spam_bar: + X-Spam_report: (1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS=3.335, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141190 Archived-At: (re-search-forward "friend.*\n.*while") * Marcin Borkowski [2022-11-27 09:56]: > On 2022-11-26, at 15:55, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > > Marcin Borkowski wrote: > > > >> I remember that someone in some video said something, and > >> I want to find that part. However, it turns out that it is > >> split between two (or more) lines. > > > > (re-search-forward ";; Hello my friend\n;; stay a while, and listen") > > > > ;; Hello my friend > > ;; stay a while, and listen > > Well, that's obviously cheating. The real problem is how to search when > you have no idea where you have spaces and where you have > newlines... Problem is so much less when using regular expressions, see above. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/