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how-many to number?
From: |
Albert Reiner |
Subject: |
how-many to number? |
Date: |
28 Sep 2005 14:40:03 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
Hi,
I am sure there must be a simple way to get the number of occurrences
of some regular expression in some region as a number. However, the
only thing I could find was count-matches / how-many, but that only
prints a message in the minibuffer.
A trivial example:
(how-many "\\b\\w+\\b" (point-min) (point-max))
returns a string like "88 occurrences", but how can I get at the
integer 88 instead? I would then want to do some simple arithmetic on
it.
Thanks in advance,
Albert.
- how-many to number?,
Albert Reiner <=