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From: Ian Swainson <ian.swainson@clients.ie>
Subject: RE-Builder and grep
Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 12:54:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uit68ozg9.fsf@clients.ie> (raw)

Hi,

I'm trying to learn regular expressions, and have been using the re-builder mode
in Emacs.

I have a text file (greptest.txt) containing the following lines:

THIS IS A TEST
this is a test
this is another test
This is a test
This is A test
this is a Test

If I do grep -e "[A-Z]" greptest.txt

The following lines are returned, as expected:

THIS IS A TEST
This is a test
This is A test
this is a Test

But if I use emacs re-builder pasting the text into a buffer, *all* lines are
highlighted, even those that don't contain any uppercade characters.  How can I
make re-builder's regular expressions work like greps, and can anyone tell me
why there is the difference?

Cheers,
Ian

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             reply	other threads:[~2002-05-01 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-01 11:54 Ian Swainson [this message]
2002-05-06  8:54 ` RE-Builder and grep Alexander Koptelov

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