Re: what can I do with regexp match?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Seweryn Kokot wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > > Now my function is:
> > > (defun my-document-files ()
> > >   "Open all document files"
> > >   (interactive)
> > >   (while (re-search-forward "\\\\include{\\(.*\\)}")
> > >          (find-file (concat "~/" (match-string 1) ".tex"))))
> > >
> > > why it failed although I have much more occurences of \include{...} in
> > > the main.tex file? Any idea?
> > Read the documentation for find-file.
> Ok I see the problem I wonder if it would be better first to read a
> buffer to a variable, then to search regexp, then assign matches to a
> list and finally visit files from the list using dolist? But the problem
> is how to create a list from regexp matches?


It does not really matter if you use find-file-noselect or create a list 
for this particular problem. The most easy way to build a list is 
perhaps this:

  (add-to-list 'my-list (match-string 1))