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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.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
Level(3), Woburn, MA
*** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-10 16:04 UTC|newest]

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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