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(Regexp Backslash): categories.
author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
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date | Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:12:18 +0000 |
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583 the characters that stand for them. | 583 the characters that stand for them. |
584 | 584 |
585 @item \S@var{code} | 585 @item \S@var{code} |
586 @cindex @samp{\S} in regexp | 586 @cindex @samp{\S} in regexp |
587 matches any character whose syntax is not @var{code}. | 587 matches any character whose syntax is not @var{code}. |
588 | |
589 @item \c@var{c} | |
590 matches any character whose category is @var{c}. Here @var{c} is a | |
591 character that represents a category: thus, @samp{c} for Chinese | |
592 characters or @samp{g} for Greek characters in the standard category | |
593 table. | |
594 | |
595 @item \C@var{c} | |
596 matches any character whose category is not @var{c}. | |
588 @end table | 597 @end table |
589 | 598 |
590 The following regular expression constructs match the empty string---that is, | 599 The following regular expression constructs match the empty string---that is, |
591 they don't use up any characters---but whether they match depends on the | 600 they don't use up any characters---but whether they match depends on the |
592 context. | 601 context. |