howto replace . with \. in a string..

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2 total messages Started by David Spencer Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:21

#2157

Author: David Spencer
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:21

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I'm having trouble doing the following:

I have a string within elisp like "main.c" and I want to 
search for it in a file, so I want to convert it to "main\.c"
so that it matches exactly - but how to modify the string from
within elisp?

Do I have to write my own routine/loop and keep calling substring or
string-match?

		Thanks,
			Dave Spencer
			dspencer@retix.com

Re: howto replace . with \. in a string..

#2160

Author: k p c
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:37

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i think you mean that you want to do a non-regexp search.  if you
still want to do a regexp search, try (regexp-quote).
-- 
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