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 06:23:55 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87tyx9ee8k.fsf@galatea.local> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257399660 6106 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2009 05:41:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 05:41:00 +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 06:40:53 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 1N5v5Y-0001Jg-RA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:40:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55972 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5v5Y-000104-Aa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:40:52 -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: 16 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Yk33hLJPNxuA2wo5pI0lmgyUUzUN2qlNBV9z8culgYnjbbLCcA Cancel-Lock: sha1:Yjk0MWNkMmYwY2E4Yzc2MGZiMDk3OGM3ODdmNDI0Y2ExNTU0NWMzYQ== sha1:CcdkHwUc9MPGfA6yD3z5x5yDJwA= 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:174405 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:69483 Archived-At: 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)) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__