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From: Santanu <thisissantanu@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this code??
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 01:57:52 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <692ac3f2-98f6-4eff-9f0b-ddd955770e03@a39g2000prb.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv1vd9rkmg.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org

On May 19, 2:04 am, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > Ah... I see. Now I understand. So, basically, just a single '\'
> > character in an elisp regexp string acts as if it wasn't even there in
> > the first place.
>
> Yes, except when it's a valid escape sequence, i.e. when the backslash
> is followed by r, t, ^, C, M, 0-9, x, o, d, e, a, b, v, LF, n, ", s, u,
> U, or f (and maybe a few more ;-).

Thanks. I will have to keep this in mind too.
Things now got a bit more complex :-)

Regards,
Santanu


      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-19  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <87eiha5ipf.fsf@fh-trier.de>
2010-05-18  7:09   ` What's wrong with this code?? Santanu
2010-05-18 14:37     ` Frédéric Perrin
2010-05-18 17:34       ` Santanu
2010-05-18 21:04         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-19  8:57           ` Santanu [this message]

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