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Re: regexp newline issue


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: regexp newline issue
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:38:47 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>   (mapconcat (lambda (char)
>                (if (memq char '(32 9 10 13))
>                    "[\040\011\012\015]"
>                  (format "[\040\011\012\015]*%c" char)))
>              string nil))

Other than to force the reader to try and remember those ASCII codes, is
there any reason not use:

  (mapconcat (lambda (char)
               (if (memq char '(?\t ?\n ?\r ?\ ))
                   "[\t\n\r ]"
                 (format "[\t\n\r ]*%c" char)))
             string nil))


-- Stefan


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