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Re: Fwd: Issue with rx: (rx (and anything anything)) seems incorrect
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Fwd: Issue with rx: (rx (and anything anything)) seems incorrect |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:52:26 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Would someone please DTRT, then ack?
Fixed,
> The following is not:
> (rx (and anything anything)) => "\\(?:.\\|
> .\\|
> \\)"
> I have no idea why the newlines are inserted, nor why there are choice
> bars (|). Why not just "\\(?:..\\)" as before?
anything matches any char, whereas . does not match newlines. But the
result you see is indeed wrong. It should be
"\\(?:.\\|\n\\)\\(?:.\\|\n\\)". Thanks for the report,
Stefan