From: Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: "Invalid preceding regular expression" in <9d45jl$67c$1@akk3.akk.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Date: 08 May 2001 15:43:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zocnpqyc.church.of.emacs@meta.verbum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <deathsquad.m3vgne42s9.fsf@socha.net> ("Robin S. Socha"'s message of "06 May 2001 22:53:58 +0200")
"Robin S. Socha" <robin@socha.net> writes:
>
> Signaling: (invalid-regexp "Invalid preceding regular expression")
> string-match("disco sucks f**k everything"
I believe your problem is that the regexp * operator can only apply to
constant-length subexpressions; In other words, the "f**" is invalid.
I'm not sure what your application is, but you might want to check out
`regexp-quote', or change the regexp to be like
"disco sucks f..k everything"...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-08 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-06 20:53 Robin S. Socha
2001-05-08 19:43 ` Colin Walters [this message]
2001-05-10 15:09 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-05-10 15:43 ` Colin Walters
2001-05-10 16:13 ` Colin Walters
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