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From: Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>
Subject: Re: removing spaces from a string
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:30:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r73te538.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: s2z2bt4u8rxp.1p3onhv9qcoyy$.dlg@40tude.net

Peter Tury <tury.peter@gmail.com> writes:
> How to interpret ?\ ?  Where can I learn about this?

I assume in the elisp info documentation.

(info "(elisp)Character Type")

Note that ?\x interprets x specially,
while     ?x  interprets x literally.

It just happens that ?\   (? \ SPC) falls in the default case of ?\,
where its interpreted as space.  But ?\a is not ?a.


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not
want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert Heinlein

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-19 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.561.1145441329.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-19 10:43 ` removing spaces from a string Peter Tury
2006-04-19 11:42   ` David Kastrup
2006-04-19 12:49     ` Pascal Bourguignon
2006-04-19 13:11       ` David Kastrup
2006-04-19 15:06       ` Peter Tury
2006-04-19 15:39         ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-04-19 16:02           ` Peter Tury
2006-04-19 19:30         ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2006-04-19 17:30   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-19 10:01 LENNART BORGMAN
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-19  9:02 Peter Tury

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