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RE: Regular expression match
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Timothy Schaeffer |
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RE: Regular expression match |
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Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:00:39 -0500 |
> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> > Qiang <mcknight0219@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> I am trying to use regular expression in Emacs. And I have question
> > Using groups and match-string. For example:
> >
> > (when (re-search-forward "Vol.\(8\)")
> > (match-string 1))
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> The regexp string should be "Vol\\.\\(8\\)"
And you can avoid emacs' regexp-in-strings hyperquoting with the rx macro.
(rx "Vol." (group "8")) = "Vol\\.\\(8\\)"
Tim S