From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Regular expression match Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:19:51 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87aaz0evns.fsf@galatea.local> References: <87tyx9ee8k.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257442856 12916 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2009 17:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:40:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 05 18:40:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N66KC-0000am-5e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:40:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40925 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N66KB-0007PE-Mf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:40:43 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Trace: individual.net pGRZytVjf1hSuuY+UWOKFQu5mrYFsQjpySxaFmDGCqjdlFLNk9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NzBkNDkzNDkzN2I1NzE2YTJlZWUzOTJjODM5OTFlZjg2ZDQ4YmZkOQ== sha1:CpYHXEWvAaFR47zd5TRmYGoxcVA= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174429 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69503 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers writes: > Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: >> Qiang writes: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I am trying to use regular expression in Emacs. And I have >>> question about how to return the matched item. For example, >>> I want to match and return '8' in the string 'Vol.8'. How >>> can I achieve that ? >> Using groups and match-string. For example: >> (when (re-search-forward "Vol.\(8\)") >> (match-string 1)) > > The regexp string should be "Vol\\.\\(8\\)" Of course. Sorry. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__