From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBSw7ZobGVy?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regexp question: match anything but not a group? Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:37:26 +0200 Message-ID: <533E5326.5080900@easy-emacs.de> References: <87zjk4louc.fsf@gmail.com> <533BA65E.3030408@easy-emacs.de> <874n2ai4ta.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396593199 29833 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2014 06:33:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 06:33:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 04 08:33:12 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WVxgd-0001S3-R1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:33:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47899 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVxgd-0007Mq-6i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 02:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35104) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVxgL-0007Ke-M7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 02:32:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVxgF-0000la-8G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 02:32:53 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:51739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVxgE-0000lJ-VX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 02:32:47 -0400 Original-Received: from purzel.sitgens (brln-4dba7fd5.pool.mediaWays.net [77.186.127.213]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreue001) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Mhr3z-1Winbb3iBH-00Mtd2; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:32:45 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <874n2ai4ta.fsf@gmail.com> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:XkwSVpem5RrgOhpUygrwl4YyAUVg1xelPFoGgAJfngG zXJi44QGLeTsbBBWdbbvlySDSQd+Sne2+K8PeBTPV1ZqmX2lUu R7iFy/E7nhpFO7YAdRDosa9269QYiN/VflnU+Dt1PCt9+r59gO 9CupVOqYxAe7ncCaLMnDoWvBlB13/z2Le4uG4/JYNC4ROU61JW HZzvL73jkhcnOsRgtRQsY0FNxUCLOrW0HWgFhMEOaOXq/lxucL eIY7eGriwiAie+iWtcfXlkhdlKVwD3x4LP85MQj62Ov7G7+173 MkLZQu66CrvvxHRoAV0WiP8Izt9ZcQUXFHgEusHcpvMYcAMSF9 MojkF90XsWXjMvrxhUTtSL6BO2nZEurmnszV9/JZ/ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.126.187 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96963 Archived-At: Am 03.04.2014 21:36, schrieb Thorsten Jolitz: > Andreas Röhler 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 ==> ""