Re: regular expression

[Stefan Monnier]

> How to exclude the newline character? I tried
> [^ ]-[^ \n]
> but that does not work. Why? And how to search for this?

\n is the representation of a newline inside an Elisp string, so it will
work if you do (re-search-forward "[^ ]-[^ \n]").  If it didn't work for
you, it's most likely because you typed that text not within an Elisp
string, but at a minibuffer prompt, where there's no such
backslash-espaces.  Instead you want to do hit C-q C-j to insert an
actual newline.


        Stefan