Hi,
I'm confused by the result of string-match:
(string-match "[0-9]+" "abc123zzz") ;; this works, giving result:
#("abc123zzz" (3 . 6))
(string-match "\\d+" "abc123zzz") ;; this doesn't work, giving result: #f
Why isn't the "\\d+" syntax (character classes) supported?
-Limbo Peng
Limbo Peng writes:
> I'm confused by the result of string-match:
>
> (string-match "[0-9]+" "abc123zzz") ;; this works, giving result: #
> ("abc123zzz" (3 . 6))
> (string-match "\\d+" "abc123zzz") ;; this doesn't work, giving result:
> #f
>
> Why isn't the "\\d+" syntax (character classes) suppor
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Regular expression syntax is not standardized, and there are several
> different variants. The "\d" syntax for character classes is a
> non-standard perl extension, and is not supported by Guile.
>
Thx...seems that I've been taking such sy
Limbo Peng writes:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>
> Regular expression syntax is not standardized, and there are
> several
> different variants. The "\d" syntax for character classes is a
> non-standard perl extension, and is not supported by Guile.
>
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> There are some additional problems with pregexp. It does not appear to
> be written with Unicode in mind, and is also written in such a way that
> it will probably perform quite poorly on future versions of Guile.
>
Thanks for pointing out
