From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: string-match and match-string Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:10:17 +0100 Message-ID: <472C6529.3080308@gmail.com> References: <472C5F79.2000201@gmail.com> <87640ja3ea.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194091847 10356 80.91.229.12 (3 Nov 2007 12:10:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 12:10:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bastien Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 03 13:10:50 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IoHpv-0004Rq-Og for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:10:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IoHpl-0005JN-9E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:10:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IoHph-0005FJ-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IoHpf-0005Cn-TB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IoHpf-0005Cd-Po for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:10:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IoHpf-0004Hu-EM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:10:31 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:64037 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IoHpd-0000kC-47; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:10:29 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87640ja3ea.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071103-0, 2007-11-03), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IoHpd-0000kC-47. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1IoHpd-0000kC-47 afdfd5b23e81aeda0e1e2b7a9cfe0e36 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82425 Archived-At: Bastien wrote: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > >> I get an error when doing things like these: >> >> (when (string-match "\\(some\\)" "") >> (match-string 1)) >> >> (when (string-match "<.*>" "") >> (match-string 0)) >> >> Should not match-string work here? > > Use this instead: > > (when (string-match "\\(some\\)" "") > (match-string 1 "")) > > (when (string-match "<.*>" "") > (match-string 0 "")) Eh, yes. Thanks.