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Re: get prematched text?
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: get prematched text? |
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Sun, 8 Aug 2004 07:49:43 +0000 |
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Vektor <vektor@126.com> wrote on Sat, 07 Aug 2004 21:27:56 +0800:
> some functions, such as "replace-match", use \N to present the Nth
> matched text in last regexp match.
> now i want to get the Nth prematched string directly, how to?
It's in the Elisp manual, on the page "The Match Data" and its sub-pages.
I think the function you want is "(match-string 2)" to get the second
substring.
> thanks in advance.
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