Re: A variant of match-end, but after replacement?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-07-19, at 14:30, Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> On 2015-07-19, at 14:06, Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I perform search using string-match, and then do the replacement using
>>>> replace-match.  Now I'd like to know the position of the end of my
>>>> replacement, so that I know where to start the next search (since I'm
>>>> coding a variant of replace-regexp-in-string).  Is there anything like
>>>> that in Emacs, or should I just concatenate the parts before and after
>>>> the match with the match in-between instead of using replace-match, so
>>>> that I can calculate that position myself?
>>>
>>>    (let ((old-end (prog1 (match-end 1)
>>>                     (replace-match "newtext" t t nil 1)))) 
>>>       (do-something old-end))
>>
>> Nope - I'm doing search and replacement in a string, not in a buffer...
>>
>> Thanks anyway
>
> Then:
>
>     (let ((old-end (prog1 (match-end 1)
>                      (replace-match "newtext" t t string 1)))) 
>        (do-something old-end))

Still not there - I can't assume that "newtext" will have the same
length as the thing it replaced...

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Marcin Borkowski
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University