From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regular expression match
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:22:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hcun3d$vbi$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tyx9ee8k.fsf@galatea.local>
Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Qiang <mcknight0219@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to use regular expression in Emacs. And I have
>> question about how to return the matched item. For example,
>> I want to match and return '8' in the string 'Vol.8'. How
>> can I achieve that ?
>
> Using groups and match-string. For example:
>
> (when (re-search-forward "Vol.\(8\)")
> (match-string 1))
The regexp string should be "Vol\\.\\(8\\)"
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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2009-11-05 5:23 ` Regular expression match Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-05 14:22 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2009-11-05 15:00 ` Timothy Schaeffer
[not found] ` <mailman.10127.1257432106.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-05 17:19 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-05 5:02 Qiang
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