Re: Is it necessary to reset or clear the global variables ?

[Andreas Politz]

Fren Zeee <frenzeee@gmail.com> writes:

>> Basically, I discovered that I was being spoofed by previous values
>> when I tried to break the function execution and it did not break,
>> when I fed it the wrong data.
>
> I should also add that setq is being used to set the global variables
> from match-data and replace-regexp-in-string to extract parts from the
> match-data using tagged regexps.

I believe you are talking about a bug in edebug (C-M-x on a function),
which in some cases mangles the match-data.

-ap