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From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regexp question: match anything but not a group?
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:37:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <533E5326.5080900@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874n2ai4ta.fsf@gmail.com>

Am 03.04.2014 21:36, schrieb Thorsten Jolitz:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
>
>> Am 01.04.2014 23:30, schrieb Thorsten Jolitz:
>>>
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> how can I write a regexp that acts like e.g.
>>>
>>> ,------
>>> | ".*?"
>>> `------
>>>
>>
>> BTW looks wrong. .* might much nothing, if non-greedy it remains
>> nothing (?)
>
> But it still seems valid to protect against greedyness?
>

Coming upon evaluating this, cursor at start of "asdf":

(progn (looking-at ".*")(message (match-string-no-properties 0)))asdf

==> asdf

(progn (looking-at ".*?")(message (match-string-no-properties 0)))asdf

==> ""






  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-04  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-01 21:30 regexp question: match anything but not a group? Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-01 23:24 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-04-03 19:48   ` Thorsten Jolitz
     [not found]   ` <mailman.18864.1396554426.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-03 20:24     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-04-03 21:36       ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-02  5:55 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-03 19:36   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-03 22:19     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-04  8:39       ` Thorsten Jolitz
     [not found]       ` <mailman.18896.1396600696.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-04  9:04         ` Loris Bennett
2014-04-04  9:37           ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-04 10:40           ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-04 14:11             ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-04  6:37     ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2014-04-04  8:53       ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-02  7:21 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-02  8:07 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-03 10:50   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-03 23:46     ` Bob Proulx
2014-04-04  8:43       ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-03 14:37   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-03 19:32     ` Thorsten Jolitz

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