Noam Postavsky <[email protected]>
writes:

> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Thorsten Jolitz
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> But - why is this not working as expected?
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>> (string-match "\\(.\\|\n\\)+?\\(world\\)" "hello \nworld")
>> (match-string 1 "hello \nworld")
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> #+results:
>> :
>>
>> or it is one, than it should have match data
>
> It does have have match data, "\n". It's only one character long
> because "\\(.|\n\\)" only matches a single character. You need to
> include the "+?" in the group if you want more.

Ah, ok, I see ... thx!

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

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