RE: Quickie - Regexp for a string not at the beginning of the line

[Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>]

Or simply make sure the RE that you're using has an [uninteresting] character before the [interesting] part.

                           v
(while (re-search-forward ".\\(interesting\\)+" (point-max) t)
    (replace-match "MORE interesting" t t nil 1))

I hope this helps.

From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of PJ Weisberg
Sent: Thursday, 2012 October 25 22:19
To: Rivka Miller
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Quickie - Regexp for a string not at the beginning of the line

On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Rivka Miller <rivkaumiller@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Programmers,
>
> I am looking for a regexp for a string not at the beginning of the
> line.
>
> For example, I want to find $hello$ that does not occur at the
> beginning of the string, ie all $hello$ that exclude ^$hello$.

How about a zero-width lookbehind for any character?


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-PJ

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