Re: regexp on emacs how to...

["Álvar Ibeas" <alvar.ibeas@unican.es>]

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 \[-[A-Z]*?[^]A-Z]+?[^]]*?-\]
 It misses at least those occurrences where the character ] is in the inserted text.
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:38:30 +0200
In-Reply-To: <0f557f31-c018-4844-b852-d8be48dda000@googlegroups.com> (renato
	pontefice's message of "Mon, 1 Sep 2014 03:11:17 -0700")
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<renato.pontefice@gmail.com> writes:

> ok, this is a right code:
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> noscenza e competenza, che in }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \f40\fs22\insrsid15731996\charrsid7868964 [-DATE-]}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \f40\fs22\insrsid15731996  prot }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
> \f40\fs22\insrsid15731996\charrsid13987552 [-TIME-]}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \f40\fs22\insrsid15731996  Il/la sig
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> this is an example with problems
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> noscenza e competenza, che in }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \f40\fs22\insrsid15731996\charrsid7868964 [-DAT{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrchE-]}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \f40\fs22\insrsid15731996  prot }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
> \f40\fs22\insrsid15731996\charrsid13987552 [-TI
> ME-]}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \f40\fs22\insrsid15731996  Il/la sig
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> In the second example, my variable ([-DATE-] and [-TIME-], are interrupted:
> - in [-DATE-] variable, by rtf code
> - in [-TIME-] variable, by a a line feed
>
> in both example, the parser that try to substituite variable, fails, becausae it find some dirty text, between the start [- and the end -] of variable.
>
> So I need to detect that occurence.
> The best thing would be to detect JUST the occurence of variable that are not well formatted (as in example 1
>
> I think regexp could do that, but I don't know how...
>
> Renato