Re: emacs regexp question

[Kevin Rodgers]

gmayer@cs.bgu.ac.il wrote:

> - How should I ask for the first occurrence of two blank lines?


interactively: ^ C-q C-j C-q C-j
programmatically: "^\n\n"


> - How should I ask for the first occurrence of N blank lines for some fixed,
> yet large, N. I think emacs uses ^ for the start of the line, though I've
> seen some regexp libraries (not for emacs) that use the ^ as a sort of
> "exponentiation" symbol for the number of times a string is concatenated.


interactively: ^ C-q C-j \{ N \}

programmatically: "^\n\\{N\\}"


> - How can I search for regexps that have one or more newlines in the middle?

interactively: \( .* C-q C-j \)*
programmatically: "\\(.*\n\\)*"

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