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From: Nikolaj Schumacher <n_schumacher@web.de>
To: Thr4wn <Seth.A.Bird@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regex Problem
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:18:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <sa2fxpzttrw.fsf@nschum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cfae3eb-8300-4a47-9643-66c8a30cef49@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com> (Thr4wn's message of "Wed\, 23 Jul 2008 12\:30\:51 -0700 \(PDT\)")

Thr4wn <Seth.A.Bird@gmail.com> wrote:

> However, whenever I try to use \n in my regex searches, emacs does not
> seem to recognize that as a newline. the regexp syntax documentation
> also does not seem to mention any way to refer to a newline.
> Am I just missing something?

You're not.  \n is in fact not part of the regexp syntax.  It's part
of the lisp string syntax.  It's the same reason you need to use only
one \ interactively, but two in lisp.

By the way, if you are designing regular expressions, it's usually
easier to use `re-builder' than interactive search.


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-24 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.15059.1216536041.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-20  7:48 ` Regex Problem Xah
2008-07-21 16:23   ` John Paul Wallington
2008-07-21 21:47 ` Thr4wn
2008-07-22 12:29   ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found]   ` <mailman.15163.1216729783.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-23 19:30     ` Thr4wn
2008-07-23 19:57       ` Drew Adams
2008-07-23 22:36         ` Bernardo Bacic
2008-07-23 22:43           ` Drew Adams
2008-07-24 11:18       ` Nikolaj Schumacher [this message]
2008-07-19 17:50 travis jeffery

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