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Re: A variant of match-end, but after replacement?


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: A variant of match-end, but after replacement?
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:30:41 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> On 2015-07-19, at 14:06, Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>
>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I perform search using string-match, and then do the replacement using
>>> replace-match.  Now I'd like to know the position of the end of my
>>> replacement, so that I know where to start the next search (since I'm
>>> coding a variant of replace-regexp-in-string).  Is there anything like
>>> that in Emacs, or should I just concatenate the parts before and after
>>> the match with the match in-between instead of using replace-match, so
>>> that I can calculate that position myself?
>>
>>    (let ((old-end (prog1 (match-end 1)
>>                     (replace-match "newtext" t t nil 1)))) 
>>       (do-something old-end))
>
> Nope - I'm doing search and replacement in a string, not in a buffer...
>
> Thanks anyway

Then:

    (let ((old-end (prog1 (match-end 1)
                     (replace-match "newtext" t t string 1)))) 
       (do-something old-end))
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