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From: Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: rx vs sregex - a "match" to the death
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 10:55:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1xtqeoel.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1154.1065429721.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Martin Stone Davis <m0davis@pacbell.net> writes:

[backrefs in regexps]

> I think you're using backreference wrongly.  Try the one I gave.

<forehead-slap/>

Silly me.

> It matches "Go, Spot, Go" OR "Run, Spot, Run". If I run
>
> (re-search-forward (sregexq (group (or "Go" "Run"))
>                              ", Spot, "
>                              (backref 1))
>
> It finds either of those two phrases.
[...]

Thanks. That's nifty.

    Oliver
-- 
15 Vendémiaire an 212 de la Révolution
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-06  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1134.1065355880.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-05 15:45 ` rx vs sregex - a "match" to the death Oliver Scholz
2003-10-05 17:08   ` Martin Stone Davis
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1139.1065373803.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-06  7:25     ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-06  8:41       ` Martin Stone Davis
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1154.1065429721.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-06  8:55         ` Oliver Scholz [this message]
2003-10-05 12:07 Martin Stone Davis

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