From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikos Apostolakis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Substring matched by regex Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:13:54 -0500 Message-ID: <86ve5y3x65.fsf@knotter.bcc.cuny.edu> References: <200801122016.25693.amax@redsymbol.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200235580 29695 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2008 14:46:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:46:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 13 15:46:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JE46d-0006XA-U4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:46:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JE46F-0007rU-SI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:46:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JE461-0007rB-5e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:45:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JE45x-0007qV-Q0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:45:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JE45x-0007qS-LI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:45:53 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JE45x-000346-5V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:45:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JE45o-0003YZ-Ob for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:45:44 +0000 Original-Received: from 199.219.160.30 ([199.219.160.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:45:44 +0000 Original-Received: from nikos.ap by 199.219.160.30 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:45:44 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.219.160.30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RzhukpA3K3ZtlRQydwApuWtYvFQ= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50694 Archived-At: Aaron Maxwell writes: > In a function, how do I get the value of a string matched by a regex? > Is `match-string' what you're looking for? ,----[ C-h f match-string RET ] | match-string is a compiled Lisp function in `subr.el'. | (match-string NUM &optional STRING) | | Return string of text matched by last search. | NUM specifies which parenthesized expression in the last regexp. | Value is nil if NUMth pair didn't match, or there were less than NUM pairs. | Zero means the entire text matched by the whole regexp or whole string. | STRING should be given if the last search was by `string-match' on STRING. | | [back] `---- Nikos > Thanks much. >