Re: Query replace regex with 2 alternatives

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <ictxrxeief.fsf@home.home>, Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> 
wrote:

> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> > &lt;\|&gt;
> > Replace with:
> > \,(if (string-equal \& "&lt;" "[" "]"))
> 
> This is what I was asking for.
> I pasted both values into emacs and the latter part gave me an
> error, (wrong-number-of-arguments if 1).  The same error I get if
> I try to evaluate the expression.  Not important now, I got the idea.

Sorry, I misplaced a parenthesis, it should be:

\,(if (string-equal \& "&lt;") "[" "]")

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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