Re: Possible problem with looking-back function

[Vinicius Jose Latorre]

> Or you can still use a regexp, with something like
>
>    (defun other-looking-back (re limit)
>      (save-restriction
>        (narrow-to-region (point-min) (point))
>        (goto-char limit)
>        (re-search-forward (concat "\\(?:" re "\\)\\'") nil t)))
>
> Note that it imposes a few different constraints on the regexp, mostly
> it can't use things like \>  or \<  or \b at the end because
> narrow-to-region will prevent it from peeking at the next char.
>    

Ok, thanks all for helping.