Re: help with Regexps

[Santiago Mejia <mejia@uchicago.edu>]

> I am still curious about the second alternative.  Do you, by any chance,
> know how to have regexp exclude a particular string (in this case,
> "\atl") from a search?

Regular expressions are bad at excluding things. You can try to do it
but it gets ugly very soon. I'd rather insert a second step, so your
program would look like this:

  (while (search-forward-regexp "^\\\\card{")
    (when (not (looking-at "\\\\atl"))
      (do-some-stuff)))
    
HTH, 

Anselm