From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to count the number of occurrences of a character in a string?
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 21:18:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd1wj600s.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAFyQvY29R-xpAWK6em9fedE1cqVVqRMj6rHsuYWmpp5Yn15feg@mail.gmail.com
> (setq str (substring-no-properties str (1+ match-pos)))
This will give wrong results for regexp that use things like ^ and \`.
Instead, you should keep using the same `str' and instead pass the
`start' arg to string-match.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-13 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-12 19:45 How to count the number of occurrences of a character in a string? Marcin Borkowski
2015-10-12 21:43 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-10-12 23:27 ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-13 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-10-13 16:06 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-10-13 16:31 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-10-13 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-13 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-13 17:43 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-10-13 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-13 19:56 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-10-13 20:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-13 20:41 ` Kaushal Modi
[not found] ` <mailman.267.1444767491.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-13 20:46 ` Brendan Halpin
2015-10-13 21:07 ` Kaushal Modi
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2015-10-13 22:44 ` Joost Kremers
2015-10-14 10:04 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-14 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-13 20:43 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-13 20:59 ` Charles Curley
2015-10-14 18:19 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-10-14 20:00 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-10-13 22:00 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] <mailman.164.1444679125.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-12 23:35 ` Joost Kremers
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