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From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)
Subject: Re: Need Regex Tutorial
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:10:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u0dmj8al.fsf@jdb.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20051205024808.GW1806@johnsons-web.com

Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> writes:

> My last postings have indicate to me that I need to roll up my sleeves
> and learn regex from the ground up.
>
> 1)Info on my GNU emacs *does not* show anything about regular
>   expressions. Info on my XEmacs does and it is not sufficient for me.
>
>   I would appreciate pointers to online docs on regex, since
>   my emacs does appear not have them.
>
> 2)I'm an old dog, but I *can* learn new tricks if I have examples.
>   *lots* of examples, starting with the most basic. I can work from the
>   Fiedl book, but seeing some basic emacs examples will help me to
>   reconcile the differences between emacs regex (or as Friedl calls 'em -
>   'scattered toothpicks') and "classic" approaches 
>  
>   Pointers to examples welcome.
>
>   thanks
>   tim
>
> -- 
> Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
>       http://www.alaska-internet-solutions.com


I hope someone mentioned 'regexp-builder', which lets you create regular
expressions from within emacs and watch how they work.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-06 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-05  2:48 Need Regex Tutorial Tim Johnson
2005-12-05  6:51 ` Herbert Euler
2005-12-05 16:12   ` Tim Johnson
2005-12-06 20:10 ` J. David Boyd [this message]
2005-12-06 23:42   ` Tim Johnson

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