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Re: Regexp issue


From: Peter Dyballa
Subject: Re: Regexp issue
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:53:33 +0200


Am 20.06.2009 um 14:47 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:

But even that will "fail" if point is at "=" in "<=>", for some
reasonable value of "fail".


When point is in the middle of the string to be found it has always to fail, because the search goes forward from point and never looks back and therefore it oversees the start of the string to be found.

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