Re: Regex replace for numbers

[Robert Thorpe]

Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com> writes:
>>  Is there a way to save the major-mode of the buffer before entering the
>>  above code, change to emacs-lisp-mode and then to enable the original
>>  major-mode again?
>
> You don't really need to do that. Simply using the syntax table should
> be sufficient in this case :
>
> (with-syntax-table emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table
>   (save-excursion
>     (goto-char (point-min))
>     (while (re-search-forward "[0-9]" nil t )
>       (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'sexp))
>             (number (number-at-point)))
>         (when number
>           (delete-region (car bounds) (cdr bounds))
>           (insert (format "%s" number)))))))

Thanks everyone.  I'll try the elisp solution and the regexps solution.

BR,
Robert Thorpe