From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Easy regexp issue Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:28:21 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1169145159.761299.289970@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169191761 18028 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2007 07:29:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:29:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 19 08:29:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H7oBV-0005qS-JI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:29:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H7oBV-0006fs-0O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:29:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H7oBE-0006fN-4T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:28:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H7oBC-0006ej-1G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:28:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H7oBB-0006eg-SE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:28:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H7oBB-00034q-BB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:28:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H7oAr-0000Xp-Kw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:28:33 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:28:33 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:28:33 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: <1169145159.761299.289970@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40451 Archived-At: HS wrote: > I'm finding this quite odd: > I want to replace all slashes for backslashes in a string, but i'm > having trouble! > > Running this: > (replace-regexp-in-string "/" "\\" "c:/emacs/lisp/") > I get: > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid use of `\\' in > replacement text") > > And if I try: > (replace-regexp-in-string "/" "\" "c:/emacs/lisp/") > I get: > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (scan-error "Unbalanced parentheses" 302 > 1) > > So, I don't see any other options! > I know the problems is there because I replace for another string then > it works: > (replace-regexp-in-string "/" "x" "c:/emacs/lisp/") > "c:xemacsxlispx" See the LITERAL argument in the doc string for replace-regexp-in-string: (replace-regexp-in-string "/" "\\" "c:/emacs/lisp/" nil t) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA