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## 33 Searching and Matching

GNU Emacs provides two ways to search through a buffer for specified text: exact string searches and regular expression searches. After a regular expression search, you can examine the match data to determine which text matched the whole regular expression or various portions of it.

The ‘`skip-chars…`’ functions also perform a kind of searching. See Skipping Characters. To search for changes in character properties, see Property Search.