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From: | Drew Adams |
Subject: | RE: [External] : Re: Regexp for matching control character, say, FORM FEED. (Was: Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help.) |
Date: | Thu, 22 Jul 2021 17:07:36 +0000 |
> > So far, these works > > > > (re-search-forward "[\014]") > > (re-search-forward "[\f]") > > (re-search-forward "\C-l") > > (re-search-forward "\f") > > (re-search-forward (kbd "C-l")) > > > > It seems subexpressions at lines 1 and 2 evaluate to the same > > "[^L]", as does for their part lines 3, 4 and 5, and then it > > is "^L"... > > I observed another strange phenomenon as described below. ^^^^^^^ None of the above is a "strange phenomenon". It's normal, helpful, and well documented. > Any hints for this behavior? Well explained by Thomas. And it has nothing to do with the form-feed (C-l) character. `re-search-forward' returns the value of `point' when it's done; and that value is printed.
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