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From: daniel@bigwalter.net (Daniel Jensen)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to re-search for ^"*Nanotechnology*"$
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:13:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lkbldzm0.fsf@orme.bigwalter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1188995542.671074.138780@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com

Mirko <mvukovic@nycap.rr.com> writes:

> My attempt
> (re-search-forward "\*[a-zA-Z ]+\*")
> fails.

Remember to use double backslashes in regexp string literals. The
backslash is an escape character in strings, so you need to use "\\" to
embed a backslash character in the string.

Or you could use rx, which provides a symbolic regexp syntax:

    (rx "*" (one-or-more (in alpha space)) "*")

Some find it easier to use.

> Also, if you could (please) show me how to use the [:alpha:]
> construct.

[[:alpha:]]

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-05 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-05 12:32 How to re-search for ^"*Nanotechnology*"$ Mirko
2007-09-05 13:02 ` Mirko
2007-09-05 13:13 ` Daniel Jensen [this message]
2007-09-05 13:18   ` Mirko
2007-09-05 13:27 ` Stephen Berman
2007-09-05 13:32 ` Eric Hanchrow
     [not found] ` <mailman.366.1188999503.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-05 15:27   ` Mirko
2007-09-05 21:41     ` Eric Hanchrow
     [not found]     ` <mailman.387.1189029199.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-06 12:50       ` Mirko

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