From: steve-humphreys@gmx.com
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [External] : Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 12:11:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-4405a98e-6f45-40c7-973f-3f47bfa65017-1621505509447@3c-app-mailcom-bs16> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210520095603.GD1127@tuxteam.de>
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 9:56 PM
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: steve-humphreys@gmx.com
> Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: [External] : Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 11:42:58AM +0200, steve-humphreys@gmx.com wrote:
> > I have now used ";; [;+-.]+" to match some specific lines.
> >
> > (string-match ";; [;+-.]+" s")
> ^ NOOOO!
>
> This is a dash in the middle, indicating a range (i.e. "match all
> characters in the range "+" to "."). In ASCII (and by extension,
> in UTF-8), these are "+", ",", "-" and ".".
I thought it was only about numeric and letter ranges only.
> So this will match...
>
> (string-match "[+-.]" "Folks, let's go!")
> => 5
>
> ... the comma!
>
> This is the whole discussion we've had just yesterday and today.
> I'm a bit confused: you seem to have ignored it totally.
>
> > How could I negate the regexp that I have defined?
>
> I don't even know what you mean by "negating a regexp".
>
> Cheers
> - t
>
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-19 16:07 Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions steve-humphreys
2021-05-19 16:17 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-05-19 16:26 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-19 16:47 ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-19 17:39 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-19 19:16 ` tomas
2021-05-19 19:27 ` tomas
2021-05-19 19:30 ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-19 21:32 ` tomas
2021-05-19 21:59 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-20 6:26 ` RE: [External] : " steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 7:59 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 8:26 ` tomas
2021-05-20 8:41 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 9:42 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 9:56 ` tomas
2021-05-20 10:11 ` steve-humphreys [this message]
2021-05-20 10:22 ` tomas
2021-05-20 10:37 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 10:50 ` tomas
2021-05-20 11:19 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 11:27 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 12:04 ` tomas
2021-05-20 11:31 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-20 11:40 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 11:49 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-20 13:03 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 11:59 ` tomas
2021-05-20 12:53 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 12:46 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 13:55 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 14:14 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 14:28 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 16:24 ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-20 16:34 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-20 17:16 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-05-20 18:29 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-21 5:48 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-20 10:29 ` Negating a regexp Yuri Khan
2021-05-20 10:39 ` tomas
2021-05-20 12:39 ` [External] : Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions Jean Louis
2021-05-20 7:15 ` Dash in regexp character classes: Beginnig vs. end [was: Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions] tomas
2021-05-20 8:08 ` Robert Pluim
2021-05-19 19:26 ` [External] : Re: Use the characters "+" and "-" in regular expressions Drew Adams
2021-05-19 19:25 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-19 16:27 ` tomas
2021-05-19 16:39 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-05-19 17:43 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-05-19 19:10 ` tomas
2021-05-19 19:17 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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