Mercurial > emacs
changeset 49809:4556482b5d22
Clarify that match data is unpredictable after failing searches.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:27:40 +0000 |
| parents | 6a37bab32791 |
| children | 4fee73e6ff97 |
| files | lispref/searching.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/searching.texi Sat Feb 15 19:26:25 2003 +0000 +++ b/lispref/searching.texi Sat Feb 15 19:27:40 2003 +0000 @@ -1255,7 +1255,7 @@ @subsection Simple Match Data Access This section explains how to use the match data to find out what was -matched by the last search or match operation. +matched by the last search or match operation, if it succeeded. You can ask about the entire matching text, or about a particular parenthetical subexpression of a regular expression. The @var{count} @@ -1273,7 +1273,8 @@ 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. +future. So don't try to rely on the value of the match data after +a failing search. @defun match-string count &optional in-string This function returns, as a string, the text matched in the last search