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From: "Mark S" <throaway@yahoo.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Do POSIX classes work in regular expression searches?
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:12:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vy1sacw6zpgdil@hermione2008.sd.cox.net> (raw)


I've been trying to do some simple searches like:

  (query-replace-regexp "<span[:ascii:]*?</span>+" "test")


or even the simpler

  (query-replace-regexp "[:ascii:]*" "test")

and not getting anywhere. Emacs just looks for the characters ":acis" --  
not for the POSIX character set of all ASCII characters. Trying it with  
other sets also got me nowhere. These character classes are listed in the  
Emacs documentation -- is there a trick to getting them to work?

Thanks,
Mark

GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
  of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1



             reply	other threads:[~2011-07-23  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-23  1:12 Mark S [this message]
2011-07-23  0:24 ` Do POSIX classes work in regular expression searches? Perry Smith
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-23  3:19 Mark S
2011-07-23  7:14 ` Andreas Röhler

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