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From: "Mark S" <throaway@yahoo.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Do POSIX classes work in regular expression searches?
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:19:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vy1x56p1zpgdil@hermione2008.sd.cox.net> (raw)


Thanks Perry!

I suppose this was obvious to everyone, but I really didn't see it in the  
documentation -- or even an example of usage.

Thanks again!
Mark

On Jul 22, 4:24 pm, Perry Smith <pedz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 22, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Mark S wrote:
>> 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?
>Looks like you need two sets of brackets?
>[[:ascii:]]*


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             reply	other threads:[~2011-07-23  3:19 UTC|newest]

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

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