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Re: A variant of match-end, but after replacement?
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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Re: A variant of match-end, but after replacement? |
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Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:30:41 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> On 2015-07-19, at 14:06, Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>
>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I perform search using string-match, and then do the replacement using
>>> replace-match. Now I'd like to know the position of the end of my
>>> replacement, so that I know where to start the next search (since I'm
>>> coding a variant of replace-regexp-in-string). Is there anything like
>>> that in Emacs, or should I just concatenate the parts before and after
>>> the match with the match in-between instead of using replace-match, so
>>> that I can calculate that position myself?
>>
>> (let ((old-end (prog1 (match-end 1)
>> (replace-match "newtext" t t nil 1))))
>> (do-something old-end))
>
> Nope - I'm doing search and replacement in a string, not in a buffer...
>
> Thanks anyway
Then:
(let ((old-end (prog1 (match-end 1)
(replace-match "newtext" t t string 1))))
(do-something old-end))
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