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(Regexps): Say up front that backslashes must be doubled in a Lisp program.
author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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date | Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:52:56 +0000 |
parents | d26ad6e1f13f |
children | a60e4b9d5ba3 |
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--- a/man/search.texi Thu Mar 29 15:38:09 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/search.texi Thu Mar 29 15:52:56 2001 +0000 @@ -385,7 +385,9 @@ character and nothing else. The special characters are @samp{$}, @samp{^}, @samp{.}, @samp{*}, @samp{+}, @samp{?}, @samp{[}, @samp{]} and @samp{\}. Any other character appearing in a regular expression is -ordinary, unless a @samp{\} precedes it. +ordinary, unless a @samp{\} precedes it. (When you use regular +expressions in a Lisp program, each @samp{\} must be doubled, see the +example near the end of this section.) For example, @samp{f} is not a special character, so it is ordinary, and therefore @samp{f} is a regular expression that matches the string