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From: Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regex to match "define ABC-123-xyz"
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:45:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i84ol0$4ga$2@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AANLkTi=ouNuKycHhMFTAO8a3bHUVdTTS5h5NuKF3ZK9=@mail.gmail.com

Deniz Dogan wrote:
> 2010/10/1 Gary:
>> I'm having trouble with this, to say the least. "Obviously" the parts
>> after the define aren't fixed, either in content or position. What I
>> have tried is
>>
>> define [A-Za-z0-9_-]+
...
>> it doesn't match the numeric part(s). I can see this in the regexp
>> builder, and, since I am attempting to match part of a programming
>> language syntax, in source code.

> Pardon me if I misunderstood, but it works perfectly fine for me in
> re-builder. Are you saying it works for you in re-builder but not when
> actually using it in code?

It now works okay in the RE-Builder for me too, but not in the mode I
have written. I imagine the REs for different parts of the language are
getting in the way of each other somewhere. I will try removing some
until I get something that works and go on from there...




  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-01 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-01 12:10 Regex to match "define ABC-123-xyz" Gary
2010-10-01 12:18 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-10-01 13:45   ` Gary [this message]
2010-10-01 15:23     ` rasmith
2010-10-05  6:47       ` Gary
2010-10-01 12:48 ` Tyler Smith
2010-10-01 13:42   ` Gary
2010-10-01 12:58 ` Tim Visher
2010-10-01 13:59   ` Erik L. Arneson
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4.1285942809.2643.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-01 16:04     ` rustom
     [not found] <mailman.0.1285935054.30433.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-01 12:20 ` Marc Mientki
2010-10-01 12:26 ` David Kastrup

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