From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this code??
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 17:04:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1vd9rkmg.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: aa880660-56e0-4c49-b08d-0eaaa969aa8e@p5g2000pri.googlegroups.com
> Ah... I see. Now I understand. So, basically, just a single '\'
> character in an elisp regexp string acts as if it wasn't even there in
> the first place.
Yes, except when it's a valid escape sequence, i.e. when the backslash
is followed by r, t, ^, C, M, 0-9, x, o, d, e, a, b, v, LF, n, ", s, u,
U, or f (and maybe a few more ;-).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-18 21:04 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <87eiha5ipf.fsf@fh-trier.de>
2010-05-18 7:09 ` What's wrong with this code?? Santanu
2010-05-18 14:37 ` Frédéric Perrin
2010-05-18 17:34 ` Santanu
2010-05-18 21:04 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-05-19 8:57 ` Santanu
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