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From: jr@PEBBLES.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs string modification question
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Date: 27 Apr 88 13:29:47 GMT
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I think the function you want might make use of:

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

provided you can call it prior to puttin g the real regexp stuff into
the search string.

/jr
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