Ted Zlatanov <[email protected]> writes:
> CW> I only have one problem. At the moment I need to use:
> CW> "^nl\\.\\|\\.nl\\.\\|\\.nl$"
> CW> for the regular expression. I would prefer to use something like:
> CW> "[\\.^]nl[\\.$]"
>
> CW> But that does not work. Is there another way to make the regular
> CW> expression simpler?
> If the '.' character is not in your word class (it shouldn't be), you
> can use
>
> (string-match "\\bnl\\b" "X.nl.X")
This also matches:
(string-match "\\bnl\\b" "X-nl-X")
But I do not think that is a problem. So I now use "\\bnl\\b". That is a
lot clearer as "^nl\\.\\|\\.nl\\.\\|\\.nl$" and easier to adopt when
another language has to be added.
Thanks.
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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
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