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From: Steve Throckmorton <ttwelve@yahoo.com>
Subject: newb rexeg question
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:56:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpgcnt47b9tp6e@corp.supernews.com> (raw)

I know this is going to end up with me looking stupid, but why does this:

...
(re-search-forward "^[a-z]...$")
...

insist on matching the word "Abba" in this word list:

...
abates
abating
Abba
abbe
abbey
...

I would think it would find "abbe".

I'm trying to match non-capitalized, four-letter words, and this is 
ticking me off.  Please tell me what I'm missing.

Thanks,
Steve T.
Stockbridge GA

             reply	other threads:[~2003-10-23 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-23 19:56 Steve Throckmorton [this message]
2003-10-23 20:08 ` newb rexeg question Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-24  7:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-10-24 19:19   ` David Vanderschel
2003-10-24 19:59     ` Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-23 20:25 Bingham, Jay

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