Re: regexp question: match anything but not a group?

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 03.04.2014 21:36, schrieb Thorsten Jolitz:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
>
> > Am 01.04.2014 23:30, schrieb Thorsten Jolitz:
> > > Hi List,
> > >
> > > how can I write a regexp that acts like e.g.
> > >
> > > ,------
> > > | ".*?"
> > > `------
> >
> > BTW looks wrong. .* might much nothing, if non-greedy it remains
> > nothing (?)
>
> But it still seems valid to protect against greedyness?

Coming upon evaluating this, cursor at start of "asdf":

(progn (looking-at ".*")(message (match-string-no-properties 0)))asdf

==> asdf

(progn (looking-at ".*?")(message (match-string-no-properties 0)))asdf

==> ""