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Re: regexp newline issue
From: |
John Paul Wallington |
Subject: |
Re: regexp newline issue |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Nov 2005 04:44:47 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) |
cstacy@news.dtpq.com (Christopher C. Stacy) writes:
> I want to search for a string like "foo bar",
> but there might be whitespace (even newlines)
> between any of the characters.
>
> Given the string "foo bar", I tried constructing a regexp by
>
> (replace-regexp-in-string "\\(.\\)"
> "[\040\011\012\015]*\\1"
> "foo bar")
> but that doesn't quite do it.
I think you wanna zap all the whitespace chars from your "foo bar"
string first (eg: so that it's "foobar") before doing the
`replace-regexp-in-string' hack on it.