From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: string-match: \` and \= do not match when START is non-zero Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:37:15 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EA820CB.9000307@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051205919 26288 80.91.224.249 (24 Apr 2003 17:38:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:38:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 24 19:38:35 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 198kei-0006eR-00 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:37:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 198kf0-00047b-09 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 198keu-000467-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:37:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 198keq-0003zZ-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from trinity.ranger.supernews.net ([216.168.1.22] helo=trinity.supernews.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 198keq-0003wr-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:37:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.11.165]) by trinity.supernews.net with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 198keo-000MfH-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:37:14 +0000 Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:37:08 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:37:08 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 15 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1051205828 7735678 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4882 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4882 \` or \= should match the empty string at index START in STRING. (string-match "\\`bar\\'" "foobar" 3) and (string-match "\\=bar\\'" "foobar" 3) return nil. I think at least one of them should succeed and return 3, just like (string-match "bar\\'" "foobar" 3) does. Otherwise, how can you anchor the REGEXP at index START in STRING? [time passes] (equal (string-match REGEXP STRING START) START) [never mind] -- Kevin Rodgers