From: Michael Slass <miknrene@drizzle.com>
Subject: Re: matching [^/]
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 08:29:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37jtd19ns.fsf@eric.rossnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 13883bbe.0407090039.3ceb71eb@posting.google.com
simon_strobl@yahoo.de (Simon Strobl) writes:
>Hello,
>
>suppose a buffer contains the following string and you want to match
>the part "// VP1zr".
>
> // VP1zr // 1(0)
>
>I typed "//[^/]+" into the re-builder. It matched the whole line. I
>could not find an explanation for this behaviour on the Emacs info
>site.
>
>Can someone explain it to me?
>
>
>Simon
re-builder is highlighting all matches to your regexp, and your string
matches twice:
'// VP1zr '
'// 1(0)'
The two matches are adjacent, so the highlighted regions touch each
other, and they look like one.
--
Mike Slass
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-09 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-09 8:39 matching [^/] Simon Strobl
2004-07-09 15:29 ` Michael Slass [this message]
2004-07-12 13:17 ` Simon Strobl
[not found] <200407091601.i69G1fL15330@dell3.ma.utexas.edu>
2004-07-11 16:12 ` Joe Corneli
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