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From: johnd@Stardent.COM (John R. Dennis)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: regular expression alternatives
Message-ID: <1991May25.134015.298@Stardent.COM>
Date: 25 May 91 13:40:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: Stardent.1991May25.134015.298
Organization: Stardent Computer, Concord MA
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I would like to search for a number of possible regexps with one
regular expression search. Then identify which regexp alternative was
matched by testing the (match-beginning n) for nil. For example

(re-search-forward "\\(foo\\)\\|\\
-- 
John Dennis

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