Re: what can I do with regexp match?

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Seweryn Kokot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to have a function that visits all the tex files included
> in main.tex file. I wrote the following function:
> (defun my-document-files ()
>   "Open all document files"
>   (interactive)
>   (while (re-search-forward "\\\\include{\\(.*\\)}")
> 	 (find-file (concat "~/nauka/doktorat/thesis/" "\\1" ".tex"))))
> 
> But it doesn't work since \\1 is not replaced by regexp match. The
> result is that the function visits \1.tex file. The question is how to
> process the regexp match to make it argument for find-file or more
> general question how to save the match in a variable or list?


(match-string 1) ;; At least in Emacs 22