From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help with regexp Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:16:31 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87tyw9mxrk.fsf@galatea.local> References: <87y6lmtnbx.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259757521 29221 80.91.229.12 (2 Dec 2009 12:38:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:38:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 02 13:38:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NFoTa-0000YA-Ey for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:38:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36019 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NFoTa-0007Kg-2r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:38:34 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: individual.net HpwH8rlBV5IxcDFVYw2FtQ2z7iVuCw+dwTXO53aKveDQ/WtLb4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZjFiZDE5OTc4NjhmNDMwYjk0YzQwYzAzY2I5NTIwNDBlODQzZWE3Mw== sha1:zc4cXVwYgtOVc3EEoZXt+FzITps= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175241 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:70316 Archived-At: Xavier Maillard writes: > Hi Pascal > > "=>\\([^:]*\\(\\|:[^:]*\\(\\|:[^:]*\\)\\)\\)" > > Awesome ! > > Would you mind explaining it to me step by step in plain english > please ? :) (insert "=>\\([^:]*\\(\\|:[^:]*\\(\\|:[^:]*\\)\\)\\)") C-x C-e gives: =>\([^:]*\(\|:[^:]*\(\|:[^:]*\)\)\) Now parse it: => \( [^:]* \( \| : [^:]* \( \| : [^:]* \) \) \) equal superior, followed by any number of non colon, followed by either nothing or a colon followed by any number of non colon, followed by either nothing or a colon followed by any number of non colon. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__