From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Regex to match "define ABC-123-xyz" Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:10:36 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285935100 13362 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2010 12:11:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:11:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 01 14:11:37 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1eSZ-0002lH-HH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:11:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45397 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1eSY-0001Ar-U8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46974 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P1eRv-00019e-UD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:10:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1eRt-0006Pc-Pd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:10:51 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51656) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P1eRt-0006OZ-K4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:10:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1eRo-0002Ng-Bs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:10:44 +0200 Original-Received: from ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net ([213.160.40.69]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:10:44 +0200 Original-Received: from help-gnu-emacs by ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:10:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (cygwin) X-No-Archive: Yes Mail-Copies-To: never X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-Gmane-Expiry: 2010-10-15 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75050 Archived-At: I'm having trouble with this, to say the least. "Obviously" the parts after the define aren't fixed, either in content or position. What I have tried is define [A-Za-z0-9_-]+ (that is, match the string "define", followed by a single space, followed by some string consisting of letters and numbers plus "_" and "-") which works except... it doesn't match the numeric part(s). I can see this in the regexp builder, and, since I am attempting to match part of a programming language syntax, in source code. Kind of confusing. What have I done wrong, please?