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Re: How do I search for 9001 or 4001
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: How do I search for 9001 or 4001 |
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Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:45:22 -0400 |
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In article <mailman.7406.1345632926.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
acomber <deedexy@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to do a regex search for the text '4001' or '9001'. I thought C-M-s
> 4001|9001 would work but it doesn't. How do I do this?
4001\|9001 will work. Emacs uses basic regular expressions, which means
that the extended regexp operators have to be escaped. This means you
have to use \(, \|, and \) instead of (, |, and ).
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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