From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: A variant of match-end, but after replacement? Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:49:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87mvysjrkb.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1437306587 20742 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2015 11:49:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 11:49:47 +0000 (UTC) To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 19 13:49:41 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGn6C-0007Og-RF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:49:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51125 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGn6C-0000kh-4o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 07:49:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGn62-0000kY-9M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 07:49:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGn5y-00076W-Tt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 07:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:58813) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGn5y-00076K-MQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 07:49:26 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9218D6F2001 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:49:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pmjTLaaSkU11 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:49:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [109.232.24.146]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CE170512018 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:49:22 +0200 (CEST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105845 Archived-At: Hi all, I perform search using string-match, and then do the replacement using replace-match. Now I'd like to know the position of the end of my replacement, so that I know where to start the next search (since I'm coding a variant of replace-regexp-in-string). Is there anything like that in Emacs, or should I just concatenate the parts before and after the match with the match in-between instead of using replace-match, so that I can calculate that position myself? Note: I have good reasons not to use replace-regexp-in-string, since I want to replace each match with something different, according to what was matched inside one of the groups. AFAIK, replace-regexp-in-string doesn't support such a use-case. TIA, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University