Elisp: Regex Functions

Search Text Functions for Buffer

• re-search-forward
• re-search-backward

[see Elisp: Search Text Functions]

Replace Match

• replace-match

[see Elisp: Find Replace Text in Buffer]

Get Captured Group

• match-data
• match-string
• match-beginning
• match-end

[see Elisp: Match Data (Regex Result)]

Regex Function for Matching in a String

• string-match
• replace-regexp-in-string

[see Elisp: String Functions]

regexp-quote

regexp-quote

quote regex so it becomes plain text for regex functions.

(regexp-quote ".png")
;; "\\.png"

(regexp-quote "[template]")
;; "\\[template]"

(regexp-quote "(* comment. applescript ocaml pascal wolframlang *)")
;; "(\\* comment\\. applescript ocaml pascal wolframlang \\*)"