[Fwd: end-of-line $ in multiline regexp replace]

[Fwd: end-of-line $ in multiline regexp replace]

[Kevin Rodgers]

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Besides the documentation bug reported below by Alan, search.c:compile_pattern()
ought to report an error when $ is used incorrectly (and ^, \`, \', etc.).

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

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From: Alan Mackenzie<none@example.invalid>
Subject: Re: end-of-line $ in multiline regexp replace
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:04:30 +0000
Message-ID: <e25tnb.u8.ln@acm.acm>

Leo <leo.broska@nospam.isys.com.au> wrote on Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:22:25 +1100:
> hi there

> want to replace a multiline regexp by an one-line replacement. (in fact i
> just want to delete the line with the regexp.)

> so, at first i tried:
>         (query-replace-regexp ".*bytes.*$[ctrl-q][ctrl-j]" "" nil nil nil)
> which did not find any line. :-(

> then i just tried the same without the end-of-line "$":
>         (query-replace-regexp ".*bytes.*[ctrl-q][ctrl-j]" "" nil nil nil)
> and that worked.

> i don't understand, why? the first regexp ".*bytes.*$[ctrl-q][ctrl-j]" seems
> to me even >>more valid<< then the second one.

> any explanations?

Yes.  It's on the page "Regexp Special" in the Elisp manual:

:      For historical compatibility reasons, `$' can be used only at the
:      end of the regular expression, or before `\)' or `\|'.

I think this is crazy, but there you go.  There is no matching warning on
the corresponding page ("Regexps") in the Emacs manual (at least, there
wasn't in October 2001), which seems like a bug to me.

A workaround is to enclose such a `$' in parentheses:  "\($\)" [or
"\\($\\)" if you're writing it as a string in a Lisp program].

> tanks and cheers, leo

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
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Re: [Fwd: end-of-line $ in multiline regexp replace]

[Richard Stallman]

    Besides the documentation bug reported below by Alan, search.c:compile_pattern()
    ought to report an error when $ is used incorrectly (and ^, \`, \', etc.).

It is not an error to use $ in other contexts.  However, the $ matches
literally in those contexts.