From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Subject: Re: get prematched text?
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 07:49:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nul4fc.36.ln@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cf2lnl$dej$1@quimby.gnus.org
Vektor <vektor@126.com> wrote on Sat, 07 Aug 2004 21:27:56 +0800:
> some functions, such as "replace-match", use \N to present the Nth
> matched text in last regexp match.
> now i want to get the Nth prematched string directly, how to?
It's in the Elisp manual, on the page "The Match Data" and its sub-pages.
I think the function you want is "(match-string 2)" to get the second
substring.
> thanks in advance.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
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2004-08-07 13:27 get prematched text? Vektor
2004-08-07 14:58 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-08-08 7:49 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
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