Re: A variant of match-end, but after replacement?

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2015-07-19, at 14:06, Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> 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...

Thanks anyway

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Marcin Borkowski
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Adam Mickiewicz University