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From: Christopher Rodriguez <yewscion@gmail.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org, julien@lepiller.eu, jgart@dismail.de
Subject: Re: Regex Rules
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 22:54:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wn82ta2x.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.75.1668099675.32456.help-guix@gnu.org>

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>> Where can I find all the regex rules for this style of regex?
> \\ is for inputing a single \ (it needs to be etcaped in guile
> strings). Then, the rest is a Guile regexp, wgicg you can liarn about
> at
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Regular-Expressions.html.
>
> The manual says it's POSIX regexp, whatever that means :)

My $0.02:

When I dove into it a while ago, I was able to make progress once I
realized Regexps in Guile conform to POSIX Extended Regular Expressions
[1], with the added caveat of having to escape them as strings [2].

[1]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/posix.html
[2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/String-Syntax.html

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       reply	other threads:[~2022-11-11 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.75.1668099675.32456.help-guix@gnu.org>
2022-11-11  3:54 ` Christopher Rodriguez [this message]
2022-11-10  2:04 Regex Rules jgart
2022-11-10  6:37 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-11-10 19:19   ` jgart
2022-11-10 19:33     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-11-10 19:49       ` Felix Lechner via

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