From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: steve-humphreys@gmx.com
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [External] : Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 17:14:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKZu1C6iR7n34/fM@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-11e573e6-a2ab-4740-b4a8-809ae723c4cd-1621518930118@3c-app-mailcom-bs16>
* steve-humphreys@gmx.com <steve-humphreys@gmx.com> [2021-05-20 16:56]:
> > [:blank:] is series of characters for that:
> >
> > (string-match "[[:blank:]]" " ") ⇒ 0
>
> Have done the following (string-match "^[:blank:]$" " ")
>
> Because (string-match "[:blank:]" s) was matching sentences with
> space between words as well.
Are you sure? As in that case the meaning of ^ is that it matches
begin of line, while in [^[:blank:]] it match anything but non-blank
and meaning of ^ is "not match" in that case.
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Jean
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-20 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-19 16:07 Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions steve-humphreys
2021-05-19 16:17 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-05-19 16:26 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-19 16:47 ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-19 17:39 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-19 19:16 ` tomas
2021-05-19 19:27 ` tomas
2021-05-19 19:30 ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-19 21:32 ` tomas
2021-05-19 21:59 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-20 6:26 ` RE: [External] : " steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 7:59 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 8:26 ` tomas
2021-05-20 8:41 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 9:42 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 9:56 ` tomas
2021-05-20 10:11 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 10:22 ` tomas
2021-05-20 10:37 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 10:50 ` tomas
2021-05-20 11:19 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 11:27 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 12:04 ` tomas
2021-05-20 11:31 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-20 11:40 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 11:49 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-20 13:03 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 11:59 ` tomas
2021-05-20 12:53 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 12:46 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 13:55 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 14:14 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-05-20 14:28 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 16:24 ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-20 16:34 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 17:16 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-05-20 18:29 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-21 5:48 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 12:39 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 7:15 ` Dash in regexp character classes: Beginnig vs. end [was: Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions] tomas
2021-05-20 8:08 ` Robert Pluim
2021-05-19 19:26 ` [External] : Re: Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions Drew Adams
2021-05-19 19:25 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-19 16:27 ` tomas
2021-05-19 16:39 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-05-19 17:43 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-05-19 19:10 ` tomas
2021-05-19 19:17 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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