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Re: query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign
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Pankaj Jangid |
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Re: query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign |
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Fri, 09 Sep 2022 09:41:37 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
>> I have a line like this,
>> HELLO=WORLD
>> now I want to downcase the part before the equal (=) sign.
>> I am approaching like this
>>
>> M-x query-replace-regexp RET \(.+\)= RET \,(downcase \1)= RET
>>
>> But this doesn't work.
>
> Where "doesn't work" means "doesn't downcase but keeps HELLO", right?
Yes. Suppose I have these lines in a region
HELLO=WORLD
HELLOXXXXWORLD
and if I now execute following sequence,
M-x query-replace-regexp RET \(.+\)= RET \,(downcase \1)= RET
the output is,
hello=WORLD
HELLOXXXXWORLD
but if I execute this,
M-x query-replace-regexp RET \(.+\)XXXX RET \,(downcase \1)XXXX RET
then the output is,
HELLO=WORLD
helloXXXXWORLD
> Have a look at (info "(emacs) Replacement and Lax Matches") which
> explains it. I think the default `case-replace' value of t is the
> problem here.
>
Thanks for pointing me to the right direction. Understood case-replace
thing. But the one thing that is still not clear to me is that, why the
first command doesn't downcase HELLO in the first line, whereas the
second command downcases the HELLO in the second line.
- query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign, Pankaj Jangid, 2022/09/08
- Re: query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign, Tassilo Horn, 2022/09/08
- Re: query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign,
Pankaj Jangid <=
- Re: query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign, Tassilo Horn, 2022/09/09
- Re: query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign, Pankaj Jangid, 2022/09/09
- Re: query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign, Tassilo Horn, 2022/09/09
- Re: query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign, Pankaj Jangid, 2022/09/09
- Re: query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign, Tassilo Horn, 2022/09/09
- Re: query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign, Pankaj Jangid, 2022/09/10
Re: query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign, Emanuel Berg, 2022/09/16
Re: query-replace-regexp on a string with '=' sign, Emanuel Berg, 2022/09/16