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From: "\"Jérôme M. Berger\"" <jeberger@free.fr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex with [_A-Z] not working as I expect
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 19:13:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jogt0c$2qb$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33763671.post@talk.nabble.com>

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AngusC wrote:
> I expected to be able to do things like this:
> 
> Example text to find
> 1, Passed,0,Q_Mitel2_with_hub_Env1,1,
> 1, Passed,0,Q_Mitel2_with_hub_Env2,1,
> 1, Passed,0,Q_Mitel2_with_hub_Env3,1,
> 
> But if my regex search string is
> ^1, Passed,0,[_A-Za-z0-9]
> 
> Then it only finds text up to 1, Passed,0,Q
> 
> How do I get it to find all of text like A_BC_D and A_CCCCCC_S

	Putting a set of characters between square brackets will only match
one character from the set. You can then use the usual repetition
operators (?, *, or +) to match more than one character (so in your
case, ^1, Passed,0,[_A-Za-z0-9]+ should do what you want).

		Jerome
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-10 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-10 10:28 regex with [_A-Z] not working as I expect AngusC
2012-05-10 17:13 ` "Jérôme M. Berger" [this message]
2012-05-10 17:15 ` Peter Dyballa

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