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Re: copy-region-to-variable
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Gareth Rees |
Subject: |
Re: copy-region-to-variable |
Date: |
4 Feb 2004 11:47:44 -0800 |
Hans Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> None of the almost 2000 built-in functions of emacs 21.2 seems to copy
> part of the buffer (region) into a variable.
As others have said, 'buffer-substring' gives you a substring of a
buffer. However, you don't need that to solve your problem.
> You need that e.g. if you have to enlarge the double in the region by
> a factor of say 3.456. Can anybody tell me how to do that?
If you want to do this interactively, use 'query-replace-regexp-eval'.
For example, to multiply each number by 3.456, type:
M-x query-replace-regexp-eval RET
[0-9.]+ RET
(* 3.456 (string-to-number \0)) RET
Non-interactively, you'd write Lisp like this:
(while (re-search-forward "[0-9]+\\(\\.[0-9]+\\)?" nil t)
(replace-match
(number-to-string (* 3.456 (string-to-number (match-string 0))))))
(Note that you need to be a bit more careful with the regexp for numbers
when you're not interactive, and you need 'number-to-string'.)
--
Gareth Rees