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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regexps and strings once again
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 18:22:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ha09che8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87lhplchuq.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>
>> Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> 4) Mark literal patterns: have a function that turns a string into a
>>> regex, by quoting every metacharacter.
>>
>> regexp-quote
>
> I think the idea was, instead of
>
> (regexp-quote "my (camaro|thunderbird) goes fast") ->
> "my (camaro|thunderbird) goes fast"
>
> to have
>
> (regexp "my (camaro|thunderbird) goes fast") ->
> "my \\(camaro\\|thunderbird\\) goes fast"

Hmm, I think I made a dumb mistake.

> or even better
>
> (regexp "my (camaro|thunderbird) goes fast") ->
> #mysterious-regexp-object
>
> or best of all IMHO:
>
> (rx "my (camaro|thunderbird) goes fast") ->
> #mysterious-regexp-object




      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-15 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-14 23:27 Regexps and strings once again Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-09-15  0:50 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-09-15  2:14   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-15  3:41     ` Daniel Colascione
2014-09-15 12:52       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-15 10:04     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-09-15 10:26       ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-15 10:33         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-09-15 12:56       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-15  6:39   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-09-15  7:08     ` Daniel Colascione
2014-09-15  1:38 ` Yuri Khan
2014-09-15  9:22   ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-15 10:12     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-09-15 10:22       ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]

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