From: Norbert Koch <nk@LF.net>
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this regexp?
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 21:47:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vz7kt22trq.fsf@lamia.LF.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d72uz6rv.fsf@hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de> (Frank Schmitt's message of "Wed, 07 Nov 2001 21:05:08 +0100")
Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:
>>Yes, but it's a matter of the lisp reader's context: You have to
>>double most occurrences of `\' in order to get them into a lisp
>>expression. What you type in the minibuffer as "\(a\|b\)" must become
>>"\\(a\\|b\\)" when used in a string expression in elisp.
>
> Is this documented somewhere and if it is, where?
Sorry, I should have been more explicit in my first message. You find
something about this in the lispref manual:
(lispref)Regular Expressions
norbert.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-07 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-07 18:48 Frank Schmitt
2001-11-07 18:54 ` Norbert Koch
2001-11-07 19:32 ` Frank Schmitt
2001-11-07 19:39 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2001-11-07 20:05 ` Frank Schmitt
2001-11-07 20:47 ` Norbert Koch [this message]
2001-11-09 9:50 ` Martin Monsorno
2001-12-29 21:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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