From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to use a variable inside Emacs regex features ?
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 18:37:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87woih161b.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190523065308.GA28035@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de's message of "Thu, 23 May 2019 08:53:08 +0200")
<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> If you are doing more complex things, you might like 'rx', which
> allows you to write regular expressions in S-expression syntax,
> thus giving you access to template macros and all that goodness.
This is a task for rx indeed - or rx-to-string when the regexp depends
on the run-time value of a variable:
(let ((ntimes 8))
(re-search-forward
(rx-to-string `(= ,ntimes "hello"))))
Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-23 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-23 3:15 how to use a variable inside Emacs regex features ? Budi
2019-05-23 3:52 ` Drew Adams
2019-05-23 4:46 ` Budi
2019-05-23 6:53 ` tomas
2019-05-23 16:37 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
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