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Re: how would you debug complex regexp searches??
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Gareth Rees |
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Re: how would you debug complex regexp searches?? |
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22 Sep 2003 07:02:38 -0700 |
Mayer wrote:
> How would one go about debugging complicated regular expressions? Is
> there some way of single-stepping through a regexp matching, so that I
> can see all the characters that were matched?
I find `isearch-forward-regexp' (bound to `C-M-s' by default) very
useful when debugging regexps: you can see interactively what each bit
of the regexp matches.
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Gareth Rees