search-forward and search-backward

[drain]

Trying to return character positions in forward / backward
searches, but without moving point. What I have:

(let* ((comma (save-excursion (search-forward (char-to-string 44))))
(period (save-excursion (search-forward (char-to-string 46))))
(colon (save-excursion (search-forward (char-to-string 58))))
(semicolon (save-excursion (search-forward (char-to-string 59)))))

Each variable contains the position of the next instance of its
specified punctuation mark, but only as the position of point at
the moment it was temporarily positioned at the character.

Is there a function that determines these positions without
resort to save-excursion and perhaps even without resort to
char-to-string?



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