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Re: Shy groups and * ...eh, what?
From: |
Heime |
Subject: |
Re: Shy groups and * ...eh, what? |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Oct 2022 06:11:21 +0000 |
------- Original Message -------
On Saturday, October 22nd, 2022 at 4:24 AM, Michael Heerdegen
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to be sure I correctly understood that if you give multiple RX
> arguments to the `rx'` ' operator, they are implicitly interpreted as a
> sequence (AFAIU, that's the case. An implicit `or' would also make
> sense, that's why I wondered).
You are correct, they should be interpreted as a sequence.
> Anyway, here is what I tried:
>
> (string-match-p
> (rx bos ( "a" "b") eos)
> "a")
> ==> 0
>
>
> (string-match-p
> (rx bos (* "a" "b") eos)
> "b")
> ==> nil
>
>
> Eh - what? With evaluated `rx' forms this is (string-match-p
> "\\\\`\\(?:ab\\)*\\'"
> "a")
> ==> 0
>
>
> (string-match-p
> "\\`\\(?:ab\\)*\\'"
> "b")
> ==> nil
>
>
> Makes no sense to me. When I change the wrapping shy groups to normal
> groups the result makes more sense to me:
>
> (string-match-p
> "\\`\\(ab\\)*\\'"
> "a")
> ==> nil
>
>
> (string-match-p
> "\\`\\(ab\\)*\\'"
> "b")
> ==> nil
>
>
> Do I miss something or is it just a bug?
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Michael.
- Shy groups and * ...eh, what?, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/10/22
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- Re: Shy groups and * ...eh, what?, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/10/22
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Re: Shy groups and * ...eh, what?, Heime, 2022/10/22
Re: Shy groups and * ...eh, what?, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/10/22