Re: Serching for pattern down one column

[Chris McMahan <cmcmahan@one.net>]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> Am 25.11.2008 um 01:59 schrieb ingvar:
>
>> I now want to search for the pattern "111" in a column (it should
>> find the
>> pattern in column 2 rows 2-4 and column 3 rows 3-5). Does anyone
>> know how to
>> do it?
>
>
> I think it's *not* possible to write *one* regular expression to find
> the occurrence in *any* column, though it's possible to write n
> regexps to find the occurrence in exactly one of the n columns.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
> A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like
> to do. Why? ...In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care
> to live.
> 				– Bradford Angier

How about a simple lisp function that would query the user for the
column (or take it from the current cursor position) and plug that into
a regexp to search?

- chris

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