From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex question
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:44:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pcolkbonbzh.fsf@shuttle.math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.176.1188753116.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
+ "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>:
> I have text reading 'try>Letter' e.g. 'try[A'
> and I want to do a search/replace using regex.
I'm confused. Is that '[' above a typo, or do you have some problem
that is more complicated than it looks?
> I want to replace it with 'try text>A
>
> I.e. I want to retain the group ([A-E])
> so that the finished text reads 'try text>A
>
> Does emacs regex support groups please?
Yes. I assume you have checked the info file that comes with emacs?
There is a whole section devoted to regular expressions. The answer
you seek seems to be in a separate section (Regexp Backslash), at
least in the version I am currently using.
--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
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2007-09-02 18:30 ` regex question Tassilo Horn
2007-09-03 6:52 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-02 18:44 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen [this message]
2007-09-02 17:11 Dave Pawson
2007-09-02 18:31 ` Peter Dyballa
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2003-05-19 16:18 ` Jesper Harder
2003-05-19 16:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-19 19:07 ` Barry Margolin
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