Re: how to use a variable inside Emacs regex features ?

[Michael Heerdegen]

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

> If you are doing more complex things, you might like 'rx', which
> allows you to write regular expressions in S-expression syntax,
> thus giving you access to template macros and all that goodness.

This is a task for rx indeed - or rx-to-string when the regexp depends
on the run-time value of a variable:

(let ((ntimes 8))
  (re-search-forward
   (rx-to-string `(= ,ntimes "hello"))))


Michael.