Mercurial > emacs
changeset 70741:0e29340d15dc
(Simple Match Data): Warn about match data being set anew by every search.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 19 May 2006 19:47:14 +0000 |
| parents | f263eba56074 |
| children | 6d812049e04c |
| files | lispref/searching.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/searching.texi Fri May 19 19:29:36 2006 +0000 +++ b/lispref/searching.texi Fri May 19 19:47:14 2006 +0000 @@ -1264,6 +1264,12 @@ expressions can have subexpressions---after a simple string search, the only information available is about the entire match. + Every successful search sets the match data. Therefore, you should +query the match data immediately after searching, before calling any +other function that might perform another search. Alternatively, you +may save and restore the match data (@pxref{Saving Match Data}) around +the call to functions that could perform another search. + A search which fails may or may not alter the match data. In the past, a failing search did not do this, but we may change it in the future. So don't try to rely on the value of the match data after