From: Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com>
Subject: Re: occur "^[^#]" gets next line too
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:04:02 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SLAhb.280$pd.114@news.level3.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1464.1065762573.21628.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.1464.1065762573.21628.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
>Andreas> [^#] matches a newline. If you don't want that fix your regex.
>
>There is no # mentioned in Syntax of Regular Expressions Info page of
>Emacs Info.
[^#] matches any character that isn't '#'. Newline isn't '#', so it
matches it.
If you want to match any character that isn't '#' or newline, use "[^#\n]"
in Lisp code, or [^#C-qC-j] when entering a regexp interactively.
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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
Level(3), Woburn, MA
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-08 20:49 occur "^[^#]" gets next line too Dan Jacobson
2003-10-09 9:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-10-09 22:58 ` Dan Jacobson
[not found] ` <mailman.1464.1065762573.21628.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-10 8:15 ` Johan Bockgård
2003-10-10 16:04 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
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