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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



  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-18 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <65c33ee7-8443-4cec-8227-9005bf4fe494@v29g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
     [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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