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

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-07-19, at 14:22, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:

> 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...

BTW: this probably won't work in a buffer either, since match-end
returns a number, not a marker (as I thought).

> Thanks anyway

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University