Re: How to re-search for ^"*Nanotechnology*"$

[Daniel Jensen]

Mirko <mvukovic@nycap.rr.com> writes:

> My attempt
> (re-search-forward "\*[a-zA-Z ]+\*")
> fails.

Remember to use double backslashes in regexp string literals. The
backslash is an escape character in strings, so you need to use "\\" to
embed a backslash character in the string.

Or you could use rx, which provides a symbolic regexp syntax:

    (rx "*" (one-or-more (in alpha space)) "*")

Some find it easier to use.

> Also, if you could (please) show me how to use the [:alpha:]
> construct.

[[:alpha:]]