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Re: re-search repeat by \{N\} not working. Bug?
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Johan Bockgård |
Subject: |
Re: re-search repeat by \{N\} not working. Bug? |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:00:50 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.2 (usg-unix-v) |
Friedrich Laher <fritz.laher@schmieder-laher.de> writes:
> "no new special characters will be defined in the future"
It is the construct "\{" that is special, not the character "{".
The manual says
"The special characters are `.', `*', `+', `?', `[', `]', `^',
`$', and `\'; no new special characters will be defined in the
future. Any other character appearing in a regular expression is
ordinary, unless a `\' precedes it."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Johan Bockgård