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Re: Bug Report -- replace-regexp-in-string from subr.el
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Davis Herring |
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Re: Bug Report -- replace-regexp-in-string from subr.el |
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Date: |
Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:06:26 -0600 |
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> REP is either a string used as the NEWTEXT arg of `replace-match' or a
> function. If it is a function, it is called with the actual text of each
> match, and its value is used as the replacement text. When REP is called,
> the match data are the result of matching REGEXP against a substring
> of STRING.
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> The "actual text of each match" is (match-string 0), not (match-string
> subexp).
If it's not obvious, you can write (match-string 1 s) in your
replacement function to get the desired behavior.
Davis
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