Re: Regular expression match

[Kevin Rodgers]

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Qiang <mcknight0219@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > 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))

The regexp string should be "Vol\\.\\(8\\)"

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA