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changeset 61593:6654a6208131
(String Basics): Mention string-match; clarify.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:44:33 +0000 |
| parents | 7c224837fcfe |
| children | 7a990909b5f9 |
| files | lispref/strings.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/strings.texi Sun Apr 17 15:04:40 2005 +0000 +++ b/lispref/strings.texi Sun Apr 17 15:44:33 2005 +0000 @@ -74,10 +74,11 @@ and other modifiers for keyboard input characters. Strings are useful for holding regular expressions. You can also -match regular expressions against strings (@pxref{Regexp Search}). The -functions @code{match-string} (@pxref{Simple Match Data}) and -@code{replace-match} (@pxref{Replacing Match}) are useful for -decomposing and modifying strings based on regular expression matching. +match regular expressions against strings with @code{string-match} +(@pxref{Regexp Search}). The functions @code{match-string} +(@pxref{Simple Match Data}) and @code{replace-match} (@pxref{Replacing +Match}) are useful for decomposing and modifying strings after +matching regular expressions against them. Like a buffer, a string can contain text properties for the characters in it, as well as the characters themselves. @xref{Text Properties}.