From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: multiple alternatives regexp question
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 03:14:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3brpg5wtg.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.87.1073442133.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> writes:
> Unfortunately, when I search and replace like so:
>
> (let ((case-fold-search nil))
> (while (re-search-forward "\\([[:lower:]]\\|[[:digit:]]\\|A\\)\\([A-Z]\\)"
> nil t)
> (replace-match (concat (match-string 1) " " (match-string 2)))))
>
> on something like
>
> ProofOfPropertiesOfTraceOfAMatrix
>
> I get back
>
> Proof Of Properties Of Trace Of AMatrix
> ^
> Why is the `A' not being treated the way I want the first time
> around?
It doesn't work because `replace-match' leaves point after the
replacement text. You could use something like this instead:
(replace-match "\\1 " t nil nil 1)
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2004-01-07 1:19 ` multiple alternatives regexp question Joe Corneli
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2004-01-07 2:14 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2004-01-07 10:13 ` Stefan Monnier
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2004-01-07 16:57 ` Joe Corneli
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