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From: evan@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Evan Kirshenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Insert regexp function?
Message-ID: <3670@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 28 Apr 88 18:08:11 GMT
Reply-To: evan@csli.UUCP (Evan Kirshenbaum)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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I'm looking for the inverse of regexp-quote.  In an application, I'm
searching for a regular-expression, and if I don't find it I want to
be able to insert something which the regexp matches (preferably one
of the first things it matches).  

Thus if the regexp was "Title:? +", it should insert "Title " (or
"Title: ")

I could probably write such an animal if necessary, but it looks
sufficiently hairy that I thought I'd wait and see whether this was
built-in and I couldn't find it or if anybody else had already done
it.

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