Re: match-end doesn't work!

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <19675039.1142172869209.JavaMail.root@ps18>, "stfn.sbtn@tiscali.it" 
<stfn.sbtn@tiscali.it> writes:

> Actions that triggered the bug:

> (string-match "quick" "The quick brown fox jumps on the brown lazy 
> dog") ==>4 
> (match-string 0 "The quick brown fox jumps on the brown lazy dog") ==> 
> "T"
> (match-beginning 0) ==> 4
> (match-end 0) ==> 1

Perhaps, you evaluated them one by one, which runs another
regexp matching code, thus changes match-data.  Try this
instead:

(let ((str "The quick brown fox jumps on the brown lazy dog"))
  (string-match "quick" str)
  (list (match-string 0 str)
        (match-beginning 0)
        (match-end 0)))

I got this:
("quick" 4 9)

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Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org