From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regexp question: match anything but not a group?
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 21:32:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878urmi4yk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv8urmv5yb.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> You need look-ahead-assertions, which aren't implemented in Emacs AFAIK.
>
> Actually, what he needs is negation. In Perl regexp, negation is
> provided via look-ahead assertions, but in lex.el, they're provided as the
> "normal negation operator". I.e. in lex.el (negate RE) is a regular
> expression which matches any string not matched by RE.
Very useful, thanks, I just installed lex.el.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
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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
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 [this message]
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