Mercurial > emacs
changeset 10560:fd09d51dfd77
(match-string): New function.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 27 Jan 1995 07:06:27 +0000 |
| parents | dcb43c6d4c42 |
| children | 53f34c870201 |
| files | lisp/subr.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/subr.el Fri Jan 27 01:43:02 1995 +0000 +++ b/lisp/subr.el Fri Jan 27 07:06:27 1995 +0000 @@ -882,6 +882,14 @@ (cons 'progn body) (list 'store-match-data original))))) +(defun match-string (n &optional string) + "Return the Nth subexpression matched by the last regexp search or match. +If the last search or match was done against a string, +specify that string as the second argument STRING." + (if string + (substring string (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)) + (buffer-substring string (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))) + (defun shell-quote-argument (argument) "Quote an argument for passing as argument to an inferior shell." ;; Quote everything except POSIX filename characters.