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Re: regexp problem


From: Pascal Bourguignon
Subject: Re: regexp problem
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 05:56:37 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"Þorne" <ego111@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a way to match only `b' if and only if it appears in the
> context `abc'  ?
>
> So searching `foo abc b ' would return a match of `b' but `bar xbc'
> would not return any matches.

You can match groups:

a\(b\)c

so the match number 0 is the whole regexp: abc
but the match number 1 is only b


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