From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to translate `rx' expressions to `rx-to-string'?
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:33:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4v9v0ny.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d2cly3br.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be
Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:
> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>> Seems I did not get the syntax for function rx-to-string yet - any hints
>> would be welcome.
>
> Read the code of rx.
>
> (format "%S" (rx bol "foo_" (+ word) eol))
> => "\"^foo_[[:word:]]+$\""
>
> (format "%S" (rx-to-string '(and bol "foo_" (+ word) eol) t))
> => "\"^foo_[[:word:]]+$\""
>
> HTH,
Yes, that helps, thank you!
OTOH, just a bit more info and maybe one little example in the docstring
of `rx-to-string' would help a lot. This is supposed to be easier to use
than regular regexp syntax ...
--
cheers,
Thorsten
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2014-07-31 14:37 How to translate `rx' expressions to `rx-to-string'? Thorsten Jolitz
2014-07-31 15:07 ` Nicolas Richard
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