From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Determining existence of text following point
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 13:26:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-c54a6b97-58db-49bc-86f5-fa1a46769abb-1621337172080@3c-app-mailcom-bs13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210518110743.GC11623@tuxteam.de>
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Christopher Dimech
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 11:07 PM
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Determining existence of text following point
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:08:42PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > How is it that the following returns nil?
> >
> > (setq sa (string-match "[^[:blank:]]" " "))
>
> Because you stated to match any non-blank character and there
> are only blank characters to match.
The docstring for string-match is
"Return index of start of first match for REGEXP in STRING, or nil."
I find the description different from what string-match actually returns.
> Cheers
> - t
>
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-17 21:46 Determining existence of text following point michael-franzese
2021-05-17 22:02 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-05-17 22:31 ` michael-franzese
2021-05-17 23:05 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-05-17 23:15 ` michael-franzese
2021-05-17 23:36 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-05-18 0:09 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-05-18 0:37 ` michael-franzese
2021-05-18 8:24 ` michael-franzese
2021-05-18 8:56 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 9:31 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18 9:42 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 9:54 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 10:08 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18 11:07 ` tomas
2021-05-18 11:26 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2021-05-18 11:56 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 12:23 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18 12:35 ` tomas
2021-05-18 12:50 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18 12:02 ` tomas
2021-05-18 12:15 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18 12:27 ` tomas
2021-05-18 12:43 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18 12:44 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 12:28 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-18 12:47 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 20:50 ` michael-franzese
2021-05-18 22:04 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 22:17 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-19 7:28 ` michael-franzese
2021-05-19 8:05 ` michael-franzese
2021-05-19 10:23 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-19 10:32 ` michael-franzese
2021-05-19 12:31 ` michael-franzese
2021-05-17 23:53 ` michael-franzese
2021-05-18 8:47 ` Jean Louis
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