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Re: help with Regexps


From: Santiago Mejia
Subject: Re: help with Regexps
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:59:34 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

> I am still curious about the second alternative.  Do you, by any chance,
> know how to have regexp exclude a particular string (in this case,
> "\atl") from a search?

Regular expressions are bad at excluding things. You can try to do it
but it gets ugly very soon. I'd rather insert a second step, so your
program would look like this:

  (while (search-forward-regexp "^\\\\card{")
    (when (not (looking-at "\\\\atl"))
      (do-some-stuff)))
    
HTH, 

Anselm





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