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

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

>>     (let ((old-end (prog1 (match-end 1)
>>                      (replace-match "newtext" t t string 1)))) 
>>        (do-something old-end))
>
> Still not there - I can't assume that "newtext" will have the same
> length as the thing it replaced...

Sorry, I misread what you wanted. 

    (let ((new-end (+ (prog1 (match-beginning 1)
                         (replace-match new-text t t string 1)))
                      (length new-text)))
       (do-somthing-from new-end))


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