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Re: regexp-builder shows matches, re-search-forward fails?
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Tassilo Horn |
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Re: regexp-builder shows matches, re-search-forward fails? |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:17:13 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com> writes:
Hi Thorsten,
> I constructed a regexp with regexp-builder for a buffer, the matches
> are clearly shown, with all the subexpressions in different colors.
> Then I do reb-copy and paste the regexp as argument for a
> re-search-forward call. In the same buffer I used to build the
> regexp, re-search-forward now fails to match anything.
>
> What might be the reason?
What's reb-copy?
The problem might be that re-builder wants the regex as string, so you
have to quote backslashes. E.g., re-builder wants "\\(foo\\|bar\\)",
but at the re-search-forward prompt you have to say just \(foo\|bar\)
and emacs does the quoting for you.
Bye,
Tassilo
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Re: regexp-builder shows matches, re-search-forward fails?,
Tassilo Horn <=