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Re: search for any two consecutive uppercase characters
From: |
Pascal J. Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: search for any two consecutive uppercase characters |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:09:31 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
"Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>> Horacio Suarez <horaciosuarez@hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello all:
>>>
>>> Is there a way to search for any two consecutive uppercase characters? In
>>> example "PÉREZ" or
>>> "GONZÁLEZ"
>>
>> Yes, this is difficult, because of the accented letters. There is no
>> [:upper:] in emacs regular expressions. It might be possible to build
>> a syntax table or something to identify uppercase letters including
>> accented ones, but AFAIK, there's nothing built in. The simpliest
>> would be to prepare a regular expression explicitely listing all the
>> characters you'd want, something like:
>>
>> "\\<[A-ZÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ]+\\>"
>>
> Isn't
> C-u C-s (aka isearch-forward-regexp)
> [A-ZÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ]\{2,\}
> better?
FSVO "better".
> here \{2,\}
> means two (or more) of the preceding expression.
They don't mean the same.
My expression means: words containing only uppercase letters.
Your expression means: any occurence of two or more consecutive uppercase
letters.
Is 0x42AB a word? (I'd say no, it's a number in C syntax for hexadecimal).
Is NeXTstep a word? (Yes, but it's not all uppercase).
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__Pascal Bourguignon__