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From: Budi <budikusasi@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to use a variable inside Emacs regex features ?
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 11:46:29 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH0GyZAwGL7jLDby7MSeVVqQWxu0m1vJZkfsHGaoxzWeZ+L5Qw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bb10774-01c5-402c-9924-1e7c23f32358@default>

(setq ntimes 7)
re-search-forward "hello\\{ntimes\\}"

How is above supposed to work ?

On 5/23/19, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> how to use a variable inside Emacs' regex features such as
>> re-search-forward, looking-at, and all the rest ?
>
> Use it inside how? where?
>
> Maybe tell us what you really want to do.
>
> Give an example, perhaps, to show what you're asking about.  In any case,
> `C-h f re-search-forward' should tell you what you need to know about its
> arguments.
>



  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-23  4:46 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 [this message]
2019-05-23  6:53     ` tomas
2019-05-23 16:37       ` Michael Heerdegen

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