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elisp: Searching and Matching

 
 33 Searching and Matching
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 GNU Emacs provides two ways to search through a buffer for specified
 text: exact string searches and regular expression searches.  After a
 regular expression search, you can examine the “match data” to determine
 which text matched the whole regular expression or various portions of
 it.
 

Menu

 
· String Search         Search for an exact match.
· Searching and Case    Case-independent or case-significant searching.
· Regular Expressions   Describing classes of strings.
· Regexp Search         Searching for a match for a regexp.
· POSIX Regexps         Searching POSIX-style for the longest match.
· Match Data            Finding out which part of the text matched,
                             after a string or regexp search.
· Search and Replace    Commands that loop, searching and replacing.
· Standard Regexps      Useful regexps for finding sentences, pages,...
 
    The ‘skip-chars...’ functions also perform a kind of searching.
 Skipping Characters.  To search for changes in character
 properties, see Property Search.
 

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