From: Albert Reiner <areiner@tph.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: how-many to number?
Date: 28 Sep 2005 14:40:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vw8psqtv00s.fsf@berry.phys.ntnu.no> (raw)
Hi,
I am sure there must be a simple way to get the number of occurrences
of some regular expression in some region as a number. However, the
only thing I could find was count-matches / how-many, but that only
prints a message in the minibuffer.
A trivial example:
(how-many "\\b\\w+\\b" (point-min) (point-max))
returns a string like "88 occurrences", but how can I get at the
integer 88 instead? I would then want to do some simple arithmetic on
it.
Thanks in advance,
Albert.
next reply other threads:[~2005-09-28 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-28 12:40 Albert Reiner [this message]
2005-09-28 13:35 ` how-many to number? rgb
2005-09-28 14:00 ` Albert Reiner
2005-09-29 3:15 ` Neon Absentius
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2005-09-29 13:17 ` Albert Reiner
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