Tommy Kelly <tommy.ke...@verilab.com> writes: > a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
>> ... it helps >> pinpointing where I have forgotten some \'s or something (I am used to >> Perls regexp syntax, so remembering all the leaning toothpicks in Emacs >> regexps is sometimes a problem :-)) > > Yeah, me too. For example: why does the . in domain1.com require the > "\\" when included in the fancy split approach, but no toothpicks at all > are needed when the same string is included in the normal (non fancy) > approach? > > At first I assumed it was because in the fancy approach the string is a regexp > while in non-fancy it's just a plain string. But that's not true is it? The > use of things like "^" and ".*" in non-fancy shows it's a regexp too, > no? It's really simple. '.' matches anything except newline, including a dot. If you want to match a literal dot, you need '\.', but inside lisp strings, double quotes and backslashes must be escaped with a backslash, so what you end up with is "\\.". Štěpán _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
