From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 14:04:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20210520120452.GB12536@tuxteam.de> References: <20210520082613.GC1127@tuxteam.de> <20210520095603.GD1127@tuxteam.de> <20210520102244.GE1127@tuxteam.de> <20210520105035.GG1127@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1603"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: steve-humphreys@gmx.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 20 14:05:29 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ljhQf-0000CF-CR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 20 May 2021 14:05:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40876 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ljhQd-0002zH-Ip for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 20 May 2021 08:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55806) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ljhQ8-0002wm-WC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2021 08:04:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:38015) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ljhQ6-0004Ky-PA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2021 08:04:56 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxteam.de; s=mail; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=XuA0igOF3gld6dPaJnZR4lUfB0lxlLoh5KTOLiAK7X8=; b=EzI2hyvJtwD106rwUeyo8GLEaa0BWMHnKYO+3U+hedIvoedyWmcLPUdEFcWsFlq1vDca5R8jFb2++PQ5U9EFFHP/Rek8RugXk7gB3US5Y+2NTJIuPRE2qbatt/XezI60uzVtXx4Jvbfp0/tE6c3tGwSc72v9LDWTM9D6LKLRV1hhG+RnAayF+LCrmMV0HmVcpfH5eh+ESmvBnfZxdLIXtirtO4mFvQXQjvH5ahqgdy2mF3mFjW20XT+hAsX1d8aaKTCjkG8oqW0TjqT0fxyvPb9voWlMc4m1jZJZVuuFuv1A2Fsdyz2BD0A+z3d7lQCygQKvfXTWpfMHz7f+sh3yaQ==; Original-Received: from tomas by mail.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ljhQ4-0003wS-Bc; Thu, 20 May 2021 14:04:52 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=5.199.139.25; envelope-from=tomas@tuxteam.de; helo=mail.tuxteam.de X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129966 Archived-At: --xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 01:27:19PM +0200, steve-humphreys@gmx.com wrote: > > This is a string of blanks, a string composed of whitespace of any leng= th. > > > > " " >=20 > The above is what I meant, my gwx mail system is horse manure. Exactly 21 spaces? (I don't think so). Does one space count? Two? Context: Do you want to find the " " after the "a" in the following example: "This is a sentence with holes"? What about the single " " after "This"? Still some thinking for you to do :-) Cheers - t --xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAmCmUGQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYGyACcDV9Lrapuo47F9QXmLzWqLzJE 81gAn1J6sjkY76u3K5ORv8EK8J6qQBB5 =xkPv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xgyAXRrhYN0wYx8y--