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Re: \w does not work in a range


From: harven
Subject: Re: \w does not work in a range
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:39:50 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin)

Decebal <CLDWesterhof@gmail.com> writes:

> I would like to define a regulair expression like [\w\-]+, but the \w
> seems not to work inside the [ and ]. Is this true, or do I need to do
> something special?

use [[:word:]\-]+ instead.
see the elisp manual, section character classes 34.3.1.2
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/elisp.html#Char-Classes


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