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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: string-match and match-string
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:10:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <472C6529.3080308@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87640ja3ea.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>

Bastien wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I get an error when doing things like these:
>>
>>   (when (string-match "\\(some\\)" "<something>")
>>     (match-string 1))
>>
>>   (when (string-match "<.*>" "<something>")
>>     (match-string 0))
>>
>> Should not match-string work here?
> 
> Use this instead:
> 
> (when (string-match "\\(some\\)" "<something>")
>   (match-string 1 "<something>"))
> 
> (when (string-match "<.*>" "<something>")
>   (match-string 0 "<something>"))


Eh, yes. Thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-03 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-03 11:46 string-match and match-string Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-03 13:02 ` Bastien
2007-11-03 12:10   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]

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