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Re: Regular expression grouping not working?


From: Douglas Lewan
Subject: Re: Regular expression grouping not working?
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2020 14:48:26 -0500
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On 2/8/20 2:30 PM, Teemu Likonen wrote:

Douglas Lewan [2020-02-08T14:17:54-05] wrote:

I'm writing some code that includes the regular expression \\([^/]+/\\),
(looking for a path on GNU/Linux) which doesn't match what I expect it
should.
Maybe your backslash escaping is wrong. In regular expressions the
grouping is made with \( \) but within Lisp strings backslash has a
special meaning too and those must be escaped "\\( \\)".

Damn! I was passing the double slash to a command I use to help me debug regular expressions.

Hand it the right string and it matches just as expected. (Too much kill-and-yank.)

Maybe now I can track down the real bug.

Thanks for helping me change my perspective.

Is there something I'm missing?
I think we need more information about your code and input data.

--
,Doug
d.lewan2000@gmail.com
(908) 720 7908

Isn't there a difference between "acquittal" and "exoneration"?




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