From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "WJ" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Another replace regexp with list question Date: 5 Nov 2013 00:21:36 GMT Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $19.95 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383611116 27533 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2013 00:25:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 00:25:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 05 01:25:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VdUSO-0005nR-IA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 01:25:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52625 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdUSN-0007ds-Ee for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:25:19 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews1 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p7d601f5bb7831babbf792b672e3d960cbb7303ddea4685d9a2faf8442b7e4293.newsdawg.com User-Agent: XanaNews/1.18.1.6 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 131104-3, 11/04/2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Received-Bytes: 2276 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202063 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94334 Archived-At: Barry Margolin wrote: > In article , > Leandro Marcolino wrote: > > > Hello, everyone!.. > > > > This time I am trying to find occurrences of: > > > > "私私私私", but > > the number of 私 can change from 1 to many. > > > > And I want to replace each 私 of the list to a white space (besides > > removing the clause). So, if there were x "私", I need x " ". > > Is it possible to do this using replace-regexp?.. Of course I can't just > > look for "私" and replace to " ", because I have occurrences of > > "私" that are not inside the group " > style='color:white'>". > > > > I tried something like "\(\(私\)+\) > > -> \,(cond (\1 " ")))", but then I lose the information of how many > > "私" were there, and everything changes to a single " ".... > > > > Thanks for your help!.. :) > > > > Regards, > > Leandro > > Regular expressions can't count. > > I would do it with a keyboard macro. Search for the span, mark it as a > region, narrow to region, use replace-string to replace each 私 > with space, widen. (replace-regexp-in-string "\\(私\\)+" (lambda (s) (make-string (length (replace-regexp-in-string "[^&]" "" s)) ? )) "私 hi私私there 私") ===> "私 hi there 私"