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Re: Question about string-match and match-string
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Suvayu Ali |
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Re: Question about string-match and match-string |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:02:47 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) |
Hi Nicolas,
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:53:14AM +0200, Nicolas Richard wrote:
>
> > PS: I'm also not very clear why we need 4 \-s in the regex to match a
> > single \ in the string. I came up with it by trial and error with the
> > regexp-builder. Any explanation about that would also be great.
>
> I hope the above is an explanation of that. Just remember there are two
> steps:
> (i) emacs reads the string
> (ii) the string is made into a regexp
> so for matching on \, you need the regexp \\, which is obtained by the
> string "\\\\" (e.g. (insert "\\\\") inserts \\)
Thank you for the very clear explanation. It was very helpful. :)
Cheers,
--
Suvayu
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