From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: replace-match: end of the replacement text for strings Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:51:06 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5lwupmoxry.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032207364 3713 127.0.0.1 (16 Sep 2002 20:16:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 20:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17r2Hn-0000wz-00 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:15:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17r2I3-0004rt-00; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:16:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!213.73.101.75!eusc.inter.net!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fMEW7dosV+8iuxodDht3veInick= Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104956 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1511 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1511 Roland Winkler writes: > "Stefan Monnier " writes: > >> >>>>> "Roland" == Roland Winkler writes: >> > When I use replace-match to operate on a string, is there an easy >> > way to find out the end of the replacement text in the string that >> > is returned by replace-match (like point in a buffer)? I have in >> > mind the situation when the optional arg LITERAL is nil, i.e., the >> > replacement text is `derived' from the string that is passed to >> > replace-match. >> >> You should be able to get it by looking at the size of the string >> before and after replacement as well as the size of the replaced >> text. It's a bit round-about, but I can't think of any other way. > > In general, doesn't this work only when I know the replacement text > -- which I don't know when I have LITERAL set to nil and I am using > something like "\1" in the replacement? You need to do some arithmetic to find out the value you want. length of replaced text = new length of string - old length of string + length of text to be replaced kai -- ~/.signature is: umop 3p!sdn (Frank Nobis)