Re: regular expression

[Burkhard Schultheis <burkhard.schultheis@web.de>]

Am 25.01.2010 13:35, schrieb Nuno J. Silva:
> Burkhard Schultheis<burkhard.schultheis@web.de>  writes:
>
>> I want to search for the following string: A hyphen not surrounded by
>> spaces. Therefore I tried the following pattern:
>> [^ ]-[^ ].
>> But this pattern finds a hyphen preceded by a letter and followed by a
>> newline character, too.
>>
>> How to exclude the newline character? I tried
>> [^ ]-[^ \n]
>> but that does not work. Why? And how to search for this?
>
> I made up some test text in a buffer, and tried search-forward-regexp
> with
>
> [^ ]-[^ \n]
>
> and
>
> [^ ]-[^
> ]
>
> The second one works here. It has the result of hitting C-q C-j, instead
> of \n, because there are other places where emacs won't match a newline
> with \n, and needs this.
>

Here too! Thank you very much!

Regards
Burkhard