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Asked: 2026-06-07T23:33:05+00:00

I need to define a function that reads all the content of a specific

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I need to define a function that reads all the content of a specific document in Emacs and processes the text in it. For example, I’m reading an XML file and I want to search for specific attributes and count the number of occurrences. Can anyone help?

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    M-x count-matches RET

    You may use regex to match your attribute

    I added this small animation out of screenshots to show you an example of usage.
    If you need a more complex one, feel free to ask.

    Small example of usage

    If you want to solve this with Emacs-Lisp,
    check out -> [question]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41522/tips-for-learning-elisp/1313997#1313997 espacially the point count-string-matches, or do it like this:

    (defun count-words ()
    (interactive)
    (let ((words (count-matches "[-A-Za-z0-9][-A-Za-z0-9.]*"
    (point-min) (point-max))))
    (message (format "%d matches" words))))

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