Perl & emacs

Richard Hector rhector at actrix.gen.nz
Mon Oct 7 02:07:25 CDT 2002


Hi all,

I typed in something similar (more complex than) the following the other
day:

/(foo$)/

That, I think, is a simple, valid regular expression. But emacs thinks
the parentheses are mismatched - presumably it thinks that $) is a
variable (which I believe it isn't in this context).

I find it hard to believe that no-one would have met this before - is it
a well known problem?

Thanks,

Richard





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