From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marc Mientki Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does word under cursor match pattern? Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:58:39 +0200 Organization: http://onet.pl Message-ID: References: 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: dough.gmane.org 1291862233 18764 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 02:37:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 02:37:13 +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 Dec 09 03:37:07 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQWNX-0007Bk-9K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:37:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQWNW-0005fn-Ks for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:37:06 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!news.nask.pl!news.nask.org.pl!news.onet.pl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: port-83-236-194-74.static.qsc.de Original-X-Trace: news.onet.pl 1282564719 23342 83.236.194.74 (23 Aug 2010 11:58:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: niusy@onet.pl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:58:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180897 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:76491 Archived-At: Am 23.08.2010 13:18, schrieb Paulo J. Matos: > Hi, > > I am trying to know if a word under the cursor matched a pattern > ([Bb]-?[0-9]+). > > Any tips on how to do this? This is a job for looking-at. ,----[ C-h f looking-at RET ] | looking-at is a built-in function in `C source code'. | | (looking-at REGEXP) | | Return t if text after point matches regular expression REGEXP. | This function modifies the match data that `match-beginning', | `match-end' and `match-data' access; save and restore the match | data if you want to preserve them. `---- regards Marc