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FW: Help with Emacs Regex
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Hortman, Mark |
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FW: Help with Emacs Regex |
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Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:17:40 -0500 |
What I am trying to do.....
I have a file that I am expecting to be in a certain CSV format. The way it
comes in to me is sometimes flawed with accidentally wrapped text lines. So
I have been writing macros to search for lines that don't match the format I
am expecting, and then I go to the previous line and kill the end of line in
order to wrap the next line into the right place.
I was previously given a barf bag and the regex of
^\([^"]\|.[^0-9]\|..[^0-9]\|...[^0-9]\)
and that seems to pass all of my tests so far.
-----Original Message-----
From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net [mailto:kai.grossjohann@gmx.net]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 2:41 PM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with Emacs Regex
"Hortman, Mark" <markh@JohnsAuto.com> writes:
> I need to match lines that do not begin with " and three numbers, so
Do not use a regexp for this. Instead, use some other kind of
feature that allows negation. For example, Emacs has the flush-lines
command, but it also has the complementary keep-lines.
What do you want to do? Then we can help and point you to the right
feature you need.
(It is possible to define a regexp that does what you want, but it
will make your head swim. Details provided on request, if you prove
that you have a good and solid seat and a barf bag.)
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- Re: Help with Emacs Regex, Barry Margolin, 2003/07/16
- Re: Help with Emacs Regex, Kai Großjohann, 2003/07/18
- FW: Help with Emacs Regex,
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- Re: FW: Help with Emacs Regex, Kai Großjohann, 2003/07/18
- Re: FW: Help with Emacs Regex, Stefan Monnier, 2003/07/18