Re: a simple string manipulation

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@libero.it> writes:

> Hi to everyone,
> I've got a simple problem (I think) that is related to a string manipulation.
> I must write often strings like this:
> MOVE  A       TO      B
> 
> and after it's opposite
> MOVE  B       TO      A
> 
> Now I'd like to know if there's a way to set a key function so that
> after I've  got a group of strings I can simply copy and paste and
> revert they.  Can you shown me how?  Thanks

I would do: 
M-x replace-regexp
MOVE \(.*\) TO \(.*\)
MOVE \2 TO \1

You could put the equivalent into an interactive function:

    ;; untested code follows:
    (defun reverse-moves-region (start end)
        (interactive "*r")
        (goto-char end)
        (insert (buffer-substring start end))
        (goto-char end)
        (while (re-search-forward "MOVE \\(.*\\) TO \\(.*\\)" nil t)
            (replace-match "MOVE \\2 TO \\1")))




        
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