From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: reduce repeated backslashes Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:04:07 +0100 Organization: ThierryVolpiatto Message-ID: <87vddyj2ew.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: <4B79086D.7040604@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266224979 16903 80.91.229.12 (15 Feb 2010 09:09:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:09:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 15 10:09:37 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NgwxU-0008J6-9d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:09:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46816 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NgwxT-0001PF-Kj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:09:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ngwx1-0001Ov-3e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:09:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49193 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ngwwz-0001OT-NW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:09:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngwwx-0004NX-2c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:09:05 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54331) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngwww-0004NE-Mc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:09:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngwws-0007zZ-Bs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:08:58 +0100 Original-Received: from 35.78.88-79.rev.gaoland.net ([79.88.78.35]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:08:58 +0100 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 35.78.88-79.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:08:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 35.78.88-79.rev.gaoland.net Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEUHBARgJRFPS0WbMBTC TSG/uJs0yyVHAAAACXBIWXMAAAsSAAALEgHS3X78AAAACXZwQWcAAAAwAAAAMADO7oxXAAABpUlE QVQ4y3VTQXKDMAyUnD7AwvQOhtxj5N4LFh9ow/+/UtlpM0BczWSS0Wola7UBeEb3+3kJ/5p9ZLz3 UI0n0J0Y4K/lh1nG24FhlJOR2LdSKtpV5gfi/Zd+NdaJBbB4D5N0JnfUIVp6obZURkJwS2a8b9uX AkgxA5gCEcknAH1s2z0DPooWmjGKcJR+HNZt+9bm0GtGRycRuZGs98Ffr02vABWGopIAhmXmxnQN BwBXZjgFLHRoqbfeYxCLWqsjLyKhbEHW+A5nEs699Q2O80ALrgHTmUTy6P0MnKyKQpKHpoNWokxs F0D5VegvWmEozyE6nuMiS98mWzlUQ9bW8qYfqOaFtzWlYCqGeIs6HEyl08jkrxUG9MF5ipXpOOpd ZMoXPPVSLWJiiwNNB+eRSyxJZmQKcacikgucnCRiHuJOLmyYJRDPwOqAvY4pA+Wy+VS8G26BAsdb Ph2Hw7ORy/H0IOG0TnaM8Cp0XrFYyU0v2z8AqkifPVbLZ0qo/gsRg60C7p+8Ov9jrUIxFde+jnAq X42hyp/c+ZcnVyUYBarrqZt3+R8450png3cWKgAAACV0RVh0ZGF0ZTpjcmVhdGUAMjAwOC0wNS0z MVQyMjoxNDoyMiswMjowMK3VBDcAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6bW9kaWZ5ADIwMDctMTAtMjhUMTc6MDg6 NDgrMDE6MDDLdIcLAAAAEXRFWHRqcGVnOmNvbG9yc3BhY2UAMix1VZ8AAAAgdEVYdGpwZWc6c2Ft cGxpbmctZmFjdG9yADJ4MiwxeDEsMXgxSfqmtAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iH0xpOuHKfX1hr8w+2F/GMXPgdY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:71867 Archived-At: Andreas Roehler writes: > Hi, > > don't know how to replace/reduce repeated backslashes > from inside a string. > > Let's assume "abcdef\\\\" > > Tried > > (replace-regexp-in-string "\\\\" (number-to-string ?\\) "abcdef\\\\" nil t) > > which reduces so far, but shows chars as it's numeric value: > > --> "abcdef9292" > > Any help? Thanks! What result do you expect? `number-to-string' give the string value of a number: eval: ?\\ ==> 92 (number-to-string ?\\) ==> "92" `string' will give you the real value of ?char: eval: (string ?\\) ==> "\\" May be a better approach is:(if it is what you expect) (substring "abcdef\\\\" 0 7) "abcdef\\" -- Thierry Volpiatto