From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: extract regexp Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:31:43 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E9EE4FF.7060902@yahoo.com> References: <2vAna.20416$TR5.13296@twister.nyc.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050601378 10970 80.91.224.249 (17 Apr 2003 17:42:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:42:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 17 19:42:55 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 196DJa-0002OW-00 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:36:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 196DIU-0002Zx-06 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:35:42 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.online.be!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1050600694 2786411 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112062 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8563 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8563 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)) -- Kevin Rodgers