From: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>
Subject: match-string debugging problem
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:18:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u0njjzr3.fsf@nolde.local.home> (raw)
There seems to be something about match-string that I don't
understand. Here is an example of the kind of code I'm working with:
(defvar mystring1 "+++++ ")
(defvar mystring2 " ~~~~~")
(defun mystring-list ()
(interactive)
(with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*test*")
(switch-to-buffer "*test*")
(dotimes (num 5)
(insert mystring1 "test" (int-to-string (1+ num)) mystring2 "\n"))
(goto-char (point-min))
(let ((mystring-list ()))
(while (re-search-forward
(concat "^" (regexp-quote mystring1) "\\(.+\\)"
(regexp-quote mystring2) "$")
(point-max) t)
(setq mystring-list (append (list (match-string 1)) mystring-list)))
(insert "\n")
(setq mystring-list (reverse mystring-list))
(dolist (elt mystring-list)
(insert elt " ")))))
After evalling this code and typing `M-x mystring-list', buffer *test*
consists of these lines:
+++++ test1 ~~~~~
+++++ test2 ~~~~~
+++++ test3 ~~~~~
+++++ test4 ~~~~~
+++++ test5 ~~~~~
test1 test2 test3 test4 test5
The last line indicates that match-string correctly matches the
strings that build mystring-list. But when I step through the code
with edebug, match-string always returns nil and a wrong-type-argument
error is raised at the insert (since nil is not char-or-string-p).
(Edebug isn't the problem: evalling first the regexp search code in
*test* and then (match-string 1) also returns nil.) Because of this
I'm having a hard time debugging other code that uses match-string.
Can someone explain what's going on?
Steve Berman
next reply other threads:[~2005-03-10 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-10 15:18 Stephen Berman [this message]
[not found] <mailman.3303.1110470311.32256.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-03-10 17:06 ` match-string debugging problem Pascal Bourguignon
2005-03-10 22:27 ` Stephen Berman
[not found] ` <mailman.3372.1110495427.32256.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-03-10 23:40 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-03-11 22:18 ` Stephen Berman
2005-03-13 21:52 ` Alan Wehmann
2005-03-14 19:32 ` Stephen Berman
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