Re: regex question

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>:

> I have text reading 'try>Letter'  e.g. 'try[A'
> and I want to do a search/replace using regex.

I'm confused.  Is that '[' above a typo, or do you have some problem
that is more complicated than it looks?

> I want to replace it with 'try text>A
>
> I.e. I want to retain the group ([A-E])
> so that the finished text reads 'try text>A
>
> Does emacs regex support groups please?

Yes.  I assume you have checked the info file that comes with emacs?
There is a whole section devoted to regular expressions.  The answer
you seek seems to be in a separate section (Regexp Backslash), at
least in the version I am currently using.

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