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Re: why does not work my regex-bilder right?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: why does not work my regex-bilder right?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:36:05 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

beonit <beonit@gmail.com> writes:

> i want search previous digit, repeated 3 times in my regex-builder
> mode
>
> "[[:digit:]]\{3\}"
> or
> "[[:digit:]]{3}"
>
> but not work. why?

IIRC, repeat counts don't "specialize" the previous expression.  It
probably works to use parens for that, like

\([[:digit:]]\)\{3\}

-- 
David Kastrup


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