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>>>>> In message <815@inews.intel.com>, jsweedle@mipos2.intel.com (Jonathan Sweedler) (JS) writes:

JS>     (re-search-forward "String")
JS>     (some-commands-follow)

JS> If "String" does not exist in my buffer then the search-forward command
JS> bombs out.  There must be a way to stop the search-forward from bombing
JS> out and to do something if the string is not found.  For instance, if
JS> the string is found I want to execute certain commands and if it is
JS> not found then I want to do something else.

Well, use ^H f (describe-function 're-search-forward)  to find out
what re-search-forward does and what its parameters are.

re-search-forward:
Search forward from point for regular expression REGEXP.
Set point to the end of the occurrence found, and return t.
An optional second argument bounds the search; it is a buffer position.
The match found must not extend after that position.
Optional third argument, if t, means if fail just return nil (no error).
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  If not nil and not t, move to limit of search and return nil.
Optional fourth argument is repeat count--search for successive occurrences.
See also the functions match-beginning and match-end and replace-match.
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