From: S Boucher <stbya@yahoo.com>
To: Giles Chamberlin <giles.chamberlin@cisco.com>,
"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Multiline regex
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:46:17 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321893977.53490.YahooMailNeo@web161606.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2lir9wpds.fsf@cisco.com>
----- Original Message -----
> and wish to replace the "paragraphs" a..b. Using re-builder (and
> based
> on http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultilineRegexp) I have constructed a
> successfully matching regex:
>
> "a\\(.*
> ?\\)*?*b"
The expression, has some weird things. * means 0-to-n occurences, ? means 0-or-1 occurences. So, you probably do not want *?*.
Try M-x regexp-builder
It's a nice interactive way to put together your regexp.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-21 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-21 13:56 Multiline regex Giles Chamberlin
2011-11-21 15:41 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-11-21 15:54 ` Valentin Baciu
2011-11-22 13:11 ` Giles Chamberlin
2011-11-21 16:46 ` S Boucher [this message]
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