Re: What Headers Are Checked With split-fancy 'any'

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

On Thu, Oct 30 2003, Jake Colman wrote:

>>>>>> "e" == era  <era@iki.fi> writes:
>
>    e> Actually it's "zero or one". The operator * is "zero or more".

Sure, sorry I only checked Jake's text roughly.

[ <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/> ]
> Actually I'm embarressed to say that I just realized I have The Book
> sitting on my shelf!  Does XEmacs follow those rules or is it a
> different dialect?

There are subtle differences, depending on your (X)Emacs version.  The
online manual should tell you all.  See (info "(Emacs)Regexps") or
(Info-goto-node "(XEmacs)Regexps").

THe most significant difference brobably (I don't have the book) is,
that often you need to write »\\« in Lisp expression instead of »\«:

,----
| In Lisp syntax, the string constant begins and ends with a
| double-quote.  `\"' stands for a double-quote as part of the regexp,
| `\\' for a backslash as part of the regexp, `\t' for a tab and `\n' for
| a newline.
`----

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