From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: goncholden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making a regex string that matches ( Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:14:57 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87y21hzxbs.fsf@zoho.eu> <87tuc5g61n.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: goncholden Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8747"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 18:23:38 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nSMVm-00026p-4H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:23:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49468 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nSMVl-0000XS-1I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:23:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59526) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nSMNc-0000A3-Cd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:15:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-40137.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.137]:25564) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nSMNZ-0002v6-1I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:15:11 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1646932499; bh=nDeV97mubzAvz293RKAxYwYw/cQIt7n5Auka5ymM26s=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To: References:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID; b=h5Bpuog6HNBRITiDYisoUYe9qqmUadz6zK7Yf8cUTILCYC298JOUUigNHWKsHsazB PRBbmYT9FsGCD+sLh8VrzYHZC9SVUw1E8DPyERbDvxQFEi/aH3oLpaFZ3lsy1pAE/f 8KAmse2jjSAGw8mg1V4jgBuFIL4fbQ2l1SrvYc892dhNI+4raJotINTxk4YzwP1Vq4 gTI0etE83Lb1Tzl9u/H4CCGsVtRklBZsuyvdeiVhC/h8HDozciLcQXjaA2r5ivtnwk 6511VN9HzDC7qjJe7tYM3SFH+Ut78bBFzom0NphqPhz0CTXOKnMca28XGHq84K0D8a Vmtxh29xkZExw== In-Reply-To: <87tuc5g61n.fsf@gmail.com> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.40.137; envelope-from=goncholden@protonmail.com; helo=mail-40137.protonmail.ch X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:20:12 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136432 Archived-At: ------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, March 10th, 2022 at 3:51 PM, Robert Pluim w= rote: > > > > > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:39:03 +0100, Emanuel Berg via Users list= for the GNU Emacs text editor help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org said: > > Emanuel> angelomolina--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wro= te: > > >> How can I make a regex string if I want to search for (. > > Emanuel> Uhm ... how much is a 50=C2=A2 stamp? > > Emanuel> (re-search-forward "(") > > And since you=CA=BCre searching for a literal '(', you can use > > `search-forward'. > > Robert Have come up with the following function. Would this be enough to count th= e number oy opening parantheses in a region ? (defun bracketing-count (region-start region-end) "Counts opening and closing bracketing marks. Interactive functions enable them to be called using `M-x`" (interactive "r") ; gets region start and end (message "Counting bracketing marks ...") (save-excursion (let (count) (setq count 0) (goto-char region-start) (while (and (< (point) region-end) =09=09 (search-forward "\(" region-end t)) (setq count (1+ count))) ))))