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Re: Regular expression match
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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Re: Regular expression match |
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Date: |
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:23:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) |
Qiang <mcknight0219@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi
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> I am trying to use regular expression in Emacs. And I have
> question about how to return the matched item. For example,
> I want to match and return '8' in the string 'Vol.8'. How
> can I achieve that ?
Using groups and match-string. For example:
(when (re-search-forward "Vol.\(8\)")
(match-string 1))
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__Pascal Bourguignon__