From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Regex reference Date: 4 Feb 2010 18:20:32 GMT Message-ID: References: <2010020407591216807-tsd@tsdyecom> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265308933 27290 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2010 18:42:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 18:42:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 04 19:42:09 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nd6eN-0008F7-Iu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:41:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52609 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nd6eN-0007lA-0j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:41:59 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: individual.net dff68bJi13imAzjvArgEfwXHWOd7yoFeczQ6We48C+gGN2tU8g Cancel-Lock: sha1:+SucoBdg8MkzHV7/85IbVyqLzrc= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176614 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71685 Archived-At: Tom Dye wrote: > I'm able to use regular expressions in LISP strings fairly regularly > for simple situations. I'd like to get better at this, so that it is > easier for me to conceptualize possible solutions to more complex > problems. Can anyone offer either print or on-line references that > might help me think about regular expressions in LISP strings more > effectively? I need something more than a concise description of each > character, something that will help me find the right frame of mind (so > to speak). M-x re-builder might be of service. (see the documentation in the file re-builder.el.) -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)