From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: A variant of match-end, but after replacement? Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:25:05 +0200 Message-ID: <87d1zojn4e.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87h9p04ain.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87k2twjq0r.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1437312331 4475 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2015 13:25:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:25:31 +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 Jul 19 15:25:24 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGoap-0004Oj-U3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:25:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51568 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGoap-0000Jk-4P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 09:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33220) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGoaf-0000Jf-NP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 09:25:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGoac-0005Ti-9T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 09:25:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:41775) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGoac-0005Tc-2x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 09:25:10 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEC66F2001 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:25:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id chdKTz3DMNMY for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:25:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [109.232.24.146]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D1954512018 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:25:06 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <87k2twjq0r.fsf@mbork.pl> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105851 Archived-At: On 2015-07-19, at 14:22, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > On 2015-07-19, at 14:06, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > >> Marcin Borkowski writes: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I perform search using string-match, and then do the replacement using >>> replace-match. Now I'd like to know the position of the end of my >>> replacement, so that I know where to start the next search (since I'm >>> coding a variant of replace-regexp-in-string). Is there anything like >>> that in Emacs, or should I just concatenate the parts before and after >>> the match with the match in-between instead of using replace-match, so >>> that I can calculate that position myself? >> >> (let ((old-end (prog1 (match-end 1) >> (replace-match "newtext" t t nil 1)))) >> (do-something old-end)) > > Nope - I'm doing search and replacement in a string, not in a buffer... BTW: this probably won't work in a buffer either, since match-end returns a number, not a marker (as I thought). > Thanks anyway Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University