Re: Search for pattern in the first few lines of a buffer

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 3:59 AM Lifepillar <lifepillar@lifepillar.me> wrote:
>
> I need to programmatically search for a pattern in the first ten lines
> of a given buffer, and save the match in a variable when found. Say, the
> pattern is:
>
> % KEY = value
>
> I need to extract the value if the above appears in the first lines of
> the buffer. Of course, the state of the buffer's window, such as the
> cursor's position, etc., and the content of registers should not be
> affected. How would you do that?
>

You can use getbufline() to read the first 10 lines of the buffer
as a list and then use match() to find the index of the item matching
a pattern in the list. You can then use substitute() or matchstr()
to extract the value.

Regards,
Yegappan

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