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On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> If
> (string-match (concat regex1 regex2) (concat str1 str2))
> then
> (and (string-match regex1 str1) (string-match regex2 str2))

Not quite: STRING-MATCH searches for a substring that matches a
specified regexp; it doesn't return whether the whole string matches
the regexp.