From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Regular expression match Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:22:41 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87tyx9ee8k.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257432391 5955 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2009 14:46:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:46:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 05 15:46:24 2009 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 1N63bR-0004ih-Rf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:46:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42224 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N63bR-0001Uj-8O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:46:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N63Wy-000889-AN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:41:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N63Wt-00085s-Qu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:41:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48510 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N63Wt-00085n-LP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:41:39 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48231) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N63Et-0004M6-IN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:23:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N63Er-0007pV-Jj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:23:01 +0100 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:23:01 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:23:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: <87tyx9ee8k.fsf@galatea.local> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:69497 Archived-At: Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > Qiang 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