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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Schizophrenic Solipsist)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs string modification question
Message-ID: <14710@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: 27 Apr 88 18:04:51 GMT
References: <11715@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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Karl Kleinpaste writes:
) I have a variable which has been setq'd to a string value.  The string
) may contain characters which are special to RE searches, but I need
) the characters to be used literally in searches.

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

) plain search-forward will not do, due to
) the need to find "[:!]" following the newsgroup name.

(re-search-forward (concat (regexp-quote newsgroup) "[:!]"))

				Matt