Ryan,

Depending on exactly what you are trying to accomplish, this may or 
may not do the trick for you.  For example, if the word "repeat" is 
followed by a space character, the space character _will_ be part of 
the match.  But if the word you are searching for is always at the 
end of a line, this should do what you want.


(re-search-forward "repeat\\(-[xy]?\\)?\\([^:\n]+\\|$\\)")

If your requirements are more complicated, it may be necessary to 
write your own function that does more than just a single call to 
re-search-forward.

--Greg

At 9:41 AM -0700 9/23/04, Ryan Bowman wrote:
>I have a regexp "repeat\\(-[xy]?\\)?" this should
>match
>repeat
>repeat-x
>repeat-y
>, which it does, however it also matches
>background-repeat:
>which I don't want it to.
>So I changed it to this "repeat\\(-[xy]?\\)?[^:]"
>so it won't match background-repeat: but then it no
>longer matches repeat,
>I assume because [^:] actually means to match
>something, but not a ':'
>so how do I specifiy that I don't care if anything
>follows the patter or not,
>so long as it is NOT ':'?