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

[Fren Zeee]

On Nov 26, 11:06 pm, Andreas Politz <poli...@fh-trier.de> wrote:
> Fren Zeee <frenz...@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.

I dont know of any such bug. But I would say, tracing with edebug
would be the answer which is what I a doing right now.

thx for the reply.