String type + integer type

[Morten Bo Johansen <mojo@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am trying to create a function that delimits plural msgstr's
in po-files. They may look like this

   #: frm/frm.c:406
   #, c-format
   msgid "You have %d message.\n"
   msgid_plural "You have %d messages.\n"
   msgstr[0] "first string"
   msgstr[1] "second string"
   ...   
   msgstr[n] ""

I wanted to do it something like this:

define mark_msgstr_plurals ()
{
   operate_on_strings ();            % narrow to a block of strings
   if (re_fsearch ("^msgstr[ ]*\\["))
     {
        message ("Enter number og msgstr to edit:");
        update_sans_update_hook (0);
        variable n = getkey ();
        if (n == 0)
          {
             [ mark first msgstr..]
          }
        else
          {        
             re_fsearch ("^msgstr[ ]*\\[" + value of 'n')
             fsearch ("\"");
             push_mark ();             
             ...
          }

that is, I would like to have the value of 'n', entered by the
user, to be appended to the search string. I was well aware that
the expression above would be invalid, it was just for
illustration purposes.          

I have been looking at various possible solutions with
custom_variable and Sprintf but I can't seem to get it to behave.

At present I am using a case statement for each number but if
the other solution was doable it would be more elegant.


Regards,

Morten
   

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