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From: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs string modification question
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Date: 27 Apr 88 15:07:17 GMT
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In-reply-to: karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)


In article <11715@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, karl@tut (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
>                                                        Can anyone give
> me a simple function which takes a string argument and inserts
> backslashes (\) in front of RE-special characters within the string?

Try:

    regexp-quote:
    Return a regexp string which matches exactly STRING and nothing else.

For example:

    (regexp-quote "comp.lang.c++")
    "comp\\.lang\\.c\\+\\+"


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