From: Thr4wn <Seth.A.Bird@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regex Problem
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:47:00 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd592f3c-6125-4b36-b133-7370f84e379d@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.15059.1216536041.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Jul 19, 1:50 pm, travis jeffery <eatsleepg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to write and extension for using tumbr. In tumblr there are two
> requirements for a post; title and body.
>
> So I set up a tumblr post document as:
> title:
> body:
>
> So get the title I use (string-match "\\title: \(.*\)\$"), which is fine
> because it's on a single line. But with I'm having trouble getting the body
> because it's multiple lines. So is there someway I can get any text
> following the body:_space_? I was thinking also of saving the entire buffer
> and then subtracting the title: TITLE and body:_space_ but I still don't
> know about that.
>
> Thanks for your help.
> --
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In an emacs regexp, you can directly enter a newline character as a
possible match by hitting C-j (will appear as ^J in the regexp) and/or
C-q C-m (honestly, I'm not exactly sure what the difference between ^J
and ^M is. I think one is \n while the other is \r. Since Windows
requires all lines to end with \r\n, I would allow for either ^J or ^M
in the search).
Also, \' means "end of buffer/string", so using both that knowledge, I
think the following will work...
"^body: ?\(\(.\|^J\|^M\)*\)\'" (there is a \' at the end of that
string)
Also, I am not certain if I understand why your regexp for title had \
\ at the beginning? wouldn't that match a literal backslash when you
really want just the beginning of the line (^)?
let me know if something I said didn't make sense.
-Thr4wn
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[not found] <mailman.15059.1216536041.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-20 7:48 ` Regex Problem Xah
2008-07-21 16:23 ` John Paul Wallington
2008-07-21 21:47 ` Thr4wn [this message]
2008-07-22 12:29 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.15163.1216729783.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-23 19:30 ` Thr4wn
2008-07-23 19:57 ` Drew Adams
2008-07-23 22:36 ` Bernardo Bacic
2008-07-23 22:43 ` Drew Adams
2008-07-24 11:18 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-07-19 17:50 travis jeffery
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