Re: Help with regexp

[tomas]

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On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 10:07:46PM +0100, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to find the regexp that could match on these:
> >
> > "=>foo"

[...]

> "=>\\([^:]*\\(\\|:[^:]*\\(\\|:[^:]*\\)\\)\\)"

Wow, Pascal. You have taught this old dog a new trick. Up to now, I
hadn't thought of putting an alternative (i.e. "|") at the start of a
parenthesized sub-expression. Thanks :-)

- -- tomás
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