From: Marc Mientki <mientki@nonet.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Does word under cursor match pattern?
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:58:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i4tnpe$mpe$1@news.onet.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.6.1282562668.29657.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Am 23.08.2010 13:18, schrieb Paulo J. Matos:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to know if a word under the cursor matched a pattern
> ([Bb]-?[0-9]+).
>
> Any tips on how to do this?
This is a job for looking-at.
,----[ C-h f looking-at RET ]
| looking-at is a built-in function in `C source code'.
|
| (looking-at REGEXP)
|
| Return t if text after point matches regular expression REGEXP.
| This function modifies the match data that `match-beginning',
| `match-end' and `match-data' access; save and restore the match
| data if you want to preserve them.
`----
regards
Marc
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2010-08-23 11:58 ` Marc Mientki [this message]
2010-08-23 11:18 Does word under cursor match pattern? Paulo J. Matos
2010-08-23 11:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-08-23 12:43 ` Paulo J. Matos
2010-08-23 12:37 ` Deniz Dogan
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