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replace-regexp-in-string

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 12622 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12622: replace-regexp-in-string
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:44:03 +0200

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> writes:

> Also would expect a respective form working with replace-regexp-in-string
>
> (setq mystring "[.A foobar] [.B baz]")
> (replace-regexp-in-string  "\\_<\\w+\\_>" (concat "\\\\" (match-string-no-properties 0) )   mystring)
>
> but it fails.

Fails in which way?  What do you expect, and what do you get?

> When commenting "(match-string 0 str)" as follows it subr.el it works
>
> 	(setq matches
> 	      (cons (replace-match (if (stringp rep)
> 				       rep
> 				     (funcall rep
>                                               ;; (match-string 0 str)
> ))
> 				   fixedcase literal str subexp)
>
> Which has some plausibility: when receiving a user-specified function, there must not be that argument.

Why?  That's what the doc string documents.

Andreas.

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