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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: extract regexp
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:31:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E9EE4FF.7060902@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ?fnord?ur881nj5t.fsf@ID-97657.usr.dfncis.de

lawrence mitchell wrote:

> (with-temp-buffer
>   (insert-file-contents-literally "prefs.js")
>   (goto-char (point-min))
>   (condition-case err
>       (re-search-forward regexp)
>     (error (error "%s not found." regexp)))
>   (setq server (match-string 1)))

Why not just let re-search-forward report the error itself?  Or do


(if (re-search-forward regexp nil t)
     (setq server (match-string 1))
   (do-something-else))

-- 
<a href="mailto:&lt;kevin.rodgers&#64;ihs.com&gt;">Kevin Rodgers</a>

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-17 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-17 16:20 extract regexp Bruce Ingalls
2003-04-17 17:11 ` lawrence mitchell
2003-04-17 17:31   ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-04-22 14:08     ` Bruce Ingalls
2003-04-22 16:28       ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-04-22 17:31         ` Bruce Ingalls

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