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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
	steve-humphreys@gmx.com
Subject: Re: [External] :  Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 13:59:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210520115905.GA12536@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-dbac65e9-62c3-4e76-9bb6-affc71398218-1621510282255@3c-app-mailcom-bs16>

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On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 01:31:22PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> This could be what you need
> 
>   (string-match "[\s]+ " s)

You know that you can say " " instead of "\s", right? This is because,
in string literal syntax, "\s" is special and replaced by a space
(analog to "\n", "\r" and friends). This has nothing to do with
regexps: the regexp engine gets to see the " ".

So it's the same as "[ ]+ ".

This is a row of one or more spaces, followed by a space -- which is
the same as a row of two or more spaces, which can be also written
" \\{2\\}" (remember: one backslash for the Lisp string, one for the
regexp).

Cheers
 - t

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-20 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-19 16:07 Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions steve-humphreys
2021-05-19 16:17 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-05-19 16:26   ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-19 16:47     ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-19 17:39       ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-19 19:16         ` tomas
2021-05-19 19:27           ` tomas
2021-05-19 19:30         ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-19 21:32           ` tomas
2021-05-19 21:59             ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-20  6:26               ` RE: [External] : " steve-humphreys
2021-05-20  7:59                 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20  8:26                   ` tomas
2021-05-20  8:41                     ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20  9:42                     ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20  9:56                       ` tomas
2021-05-20 10:11                         ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 10:22                           ` tomas
2021-05-20 10:37                             ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 10:50                               ` tomas
2021-05-20 11:19                                 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 11:27                                   ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 12:04                                     ` tomas
2021-05-20 11:31                                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-20 11:40                                     ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 11:49                                       ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-20 13:03                                       ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 11:59                                     ` tomas [this message]
2021-05-20 12:53                                     ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 12:46                               ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 13:55                                 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 14:14                                   ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 14:28                                     ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 16:24                                       ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-20 16:34                                         ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 17:16                                           ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-05-20 18:29                                             ` Drew Adams
2021-05-21  5:48                                       ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 10:29                         ` Negating a regexp Yuri Khan
2021-05-20 10:39                           ` tomas
2021-05-20 12:39                       ` [External] : Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions Jean Louis
2021-05-20  7:15               ` Dash in regexp character classes: Beginnig vs. end [was: Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions] tomas
2021-05-20  8:08                 ` Robert Pluim
2021-05-19 19:26       ` [External] : Re: Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions Drew Adams
2021-05-19 19:25     ` Drew Adams
2021-05-19 16:27   ` tomas
2021-05-19 16:39     ` Skip Montanaro
2021-05-19 17:43       ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-05-19 19:10       ` tomas
2021-05-19 19:17 ` [External] : " Drew Adams

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