From: Daniel Wright <daniel.d.wright@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: regex support
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:37:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ll72le8o.fsf@labrelruso.bighost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20050428212956.16723.qmail@web51902.mail.yahoo.com
Ryan Bowman <ryanlbowman@yahoo.com> writes:
> Does emacs support the regex syntax {4} or any of it's
> variants? I'd like to match a date a la 2005-04-19,
> so I'm trying (for the year part) something like
> "[0-9]{4}", but unless I'm doing something wrong it
> doesn't seem to be working. Assuming it doesn't
> support that, is there a better way to match an string
> of digits of length 4 than "[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]"?
You need a couple of extra backslashes, try "[0-9]\{4\}".
There's a full description in the "regexps" node of the emacs info:
(info "(emacs)regexps");<--- hit C-x C-e here.
Greetings,
Daniel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-28 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-28 21:29 regex support Ryan Bowman
2005-04-28 22:37 ` Daniel Wright [this message]
2005-04-28 22:57 ` Peter Dyballa
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2005-04-29 3:54 ` Llewelly
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