Re: rexexp help needed

[henry atting]

Zitat - Lennart Borgman * Fr Dez 26 2008 um 18:11 -

> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 5:17 PM, henry atting
> <nspm_01@literaturlatenight.de> wrote:
>> Zitat - Lennart Borgman * Fr Dez 26 2008 um 15:51 -
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 3:20 PM, henry atting
>>> <nspm_01@literaturlatenight.de> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to build a rexexp that does the following:
>>>> I have a text file where I want to replace
>>>>
>>>>    Medicine:One:Two            €12.00
>>>>
>>>> With
>>>>
>>>>    Medicine                    €12.00
>>>>
>>>> Because I have more than one entry `Medicine' (and they
>>>> differ slightly, something like `Medicine:Three:Four' and
>>>> so on) I have to do it with `quere-replace-regexp'.
>>>> With regexp-builder I found this:
>>>>
>>>>    Medicine:.*[^€.0-9]
>>>>
>>>> This works both in regexp-builder and a scratch buffer, but
>>>> unfortunately not in a file. If applied on a file replace-regexp
>>>> strips everything from the first `:'.
>>>
>>> You have to escape the [] with \. That is a bit tricky since you have
>>> to double the escape character. (One for text escaping, one for regexp
>>> char escaping.)
>>
>>
>> Mmh, IIRC I tried it already with escape sequences. Anyway, if I do so I
>> get:
>>
>>    Replaced 0 occurences
>>
>> No difference if I try it in a scratch buffer or a file.
>> Without escaping it works in a scratch buffer at least. ;)
>
> Eh, sorry. Everything (nearly) I wrote before was wrong. You do not
> need to escape []. Something like this is what you want
>
>   (re-search-forward "Medicine:[^€]*")

Yes, thanks, with `*' at the end it works fine.


henry