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From: steve-humphreys@gmx.com
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [External] :  Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 10:41:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-769f65dc-3d7e-417b-803b-2f37fac15536-1621500106358@3c-app-mailcom-bs16> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210520082613.GC1127@tuxteam.de>

You are right.  Have got it now, thanks.

> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 8:26 PM
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: steve-humphreys@gmx.com
> Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: [External] :  Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 09:59:59AM +0200, steve-humphreys@gmx.com wrote:
> > I wonder why I am getting
> >
> > Symbol's value as variable is void: message
>
> Because you are using it as a variable down there:
> >
> > (message " ")
> > (message "*** ***")
> > (setq s (string-match "[+]+"  "++++++++++++++++"))
> > message("%s" s)
>   ^^^ HERE
> > (setq s (string-match "[+-]+" "++++++++++++++++"))
> > message("%s" s)
> > (setq s (string-match "[+-]+" "----------------"))
> > message("%s"  s)
>   ^^^ AND HERE
>
> Now *STOP*.
>
> Think about it. How could you have debugged it yourself?
>
> That's the only way to improve.
>
> Cheers
>  - t
>



  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-20  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-19 16:07 Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions steve-humphreys
2021-05-19 16:17 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-05-19 16:26   ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-19 16:47     ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-19 17:39       ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-19 19:16         ` tomas
2021-05-19 19:27           ` tomas
2021-05-19 19:30         ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-19 21:32           ` tomas
2021-05-19 21:59             ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-20  6:26               ` RE: [External] : " steve-humphreys
2021-05-20  7:59                 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20  8:26                   ` tomas
2021-05-20  8:41                     ` steve-humphreys [this message]
2021-05-20  9:42                     ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20  9:56                       ` tomas
2021-05-20 10:11                         ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 10:22                           ` tomas
2021-05-20 10:37                             ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 10:50                               ` tomas
2021-05-20 11:19                                 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 11:27                                   ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 12:04                                     ` tomas
2021-05-20 11:31                                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-20 11:40                                     ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 11:49                                       ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-20 13:03                                       ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 11:59                                     ` tomas
2021-05-20 12:53                                     ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 12:46                               ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 13:55                                 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 14:14                                   ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 14:28                                     ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 16:24                                       ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-20 16:34                                         ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 17:16                                           ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-05-20 18:29                                             ` Drew Adams
2021-05-21  5:48                                       ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 12:39                       ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20  7:15               ` Dash in regexp character classes: Beginnig vs. end [was: Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions] tomas
2021-05-20  8:08                 ` Robert Pluim
2021-05-19 19:26       ` [External] : Re: Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions Drew Adams
2021-05-19 19:25     ` Drew Adams
2021-05-19 16:27   ` tomas
2021-05-19 16:39     ` Skip Montanaro
2021-05-19 17:43       ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-05-19 19:10       ` tomas
2021-05-19 19:17 ` [External] : " Drew Adams

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