Re: Do POSIX classes work in regular expression searches?

["Mark S" <throaway@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Perry!

I suppose this was obvious to everyone, but I really didn't see it in the  
documentation -- or even an example of usage.

Thanks again!
Mark

On Jul 22, 4:24 pm, Perry Smith <pedz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 22, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Mark S wrote:
>> I've been trying to do some simple searches like:
>> (query-replace-regexp "<span[:ascii:]*?</span>+" "test")
>> or even the simpler
>> (query-replace-regexp "[:ascii:]*" "test")
>> and not getting anywhere. Emacs just looks for the characters ":acis"  
> -- not for the POSIX character set of all ASCII characters. Trying it  
> with other sets also got me nowhere. These character classes are listed  
> in the Emacs documentation -- is there a trick to getting them to work?
>Looks like you need two sets of brackets?
>[[:ascii:]]*


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