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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible to write 'beginning of line' in a String?
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:22:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5d1z3qg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d2ud73nq.fsf@imladris.arda

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> Thorsten Jolitz [2013-04-02 09:26:54 +0200] wrote:
>
>> what is the (or rather - is there a) string equivalent to regexp
>> "^abc"? "\nabc" is not quite what I want.
>
> I think "^" should work but there is also "\`". Actually, in Lisp
> strings you would write "\\`".

But this is still regexp syntax, when used as a string "^" and "\`" are
just printed like other chars. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten




  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-02  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-02  7:26 Possible to write 'beginning of line' in a String? Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-02  8:11 ` Teemu Likonen
2013-04-02  9:22   ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2013-04-02  8:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-02  9:20   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-02  9:24     ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-04-02  9:41       ` Andreas Röhler
2013-04-02  9:58         ` Thorsten Jolitz
     [not found]         ` <mailman.23288.1364897437.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-04-02 21:27           ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-04-03  7:06             ` Thorsten Jolitz

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