Re: Reading from a buffer

[Stefan Monnier]

> The function 'buffer-substring-no-properties' is certainly a step in the
> right direction, thank you. I've now got it down to:
> (setq count (car (read-from-string (buffer-substring-no-properties (mark)
> (point)))))
> But I'm nothing short of astonished that there is not yet anything in
> standard Emacs Lisp that is comparable to a formatted read-from-buffer
> statement in a more conventional programming language like Fortran or C.
> I'm imagining something akin to '(insert (format...' but working in the
> opposite direction, something like '(unformat (read...'.  Perhaps I'll just
> create my own library of intuitive and easy-to-use buffer I/O functions
> since I expect to be doing quite a bit of this sort of thing in the future.

Maybe you're looking for:

  looking-at or re-search-forward

followed by

  match-string

?


        Stefan