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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/subr.el | 8 |
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diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el index a95f4d58efd..21438419302 100644 --- a/lisp/subr.el +++ b/lisp/subr.el @@ -882,6 +882,14 @@ Wildcards and redirection are handled as usual in the shell." (cons 'progn body) (list 'store-match-data original))))) +(defun match-string (n &optional string) + "Return the Nth subexpression matched by the last regexp search or match. +If the last search or match was done against a string, +specify that string as the second argument STRING." + (if string + (substring string (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)) + (buffer-substring string (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))) + (defun shell-quote-argument (argument) "Quote an argument for passing as argument to an inferior shell." ;; Quote everything except POSIX filename characters. |