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Re: forward-sexp for strings


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: forward-sexp for strings
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:14:02 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> The function forward-sexp requires a buffer. Is there something
>> similar for parsing strings? Of course, I can always use
>> with-temp-buffer.

Use a buffer.

>       for oe = (read-from-string s e)

read-from-string is indeed an alternative, but only to parse strings whose
content uses the elisp syntax.


        Stefan


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