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Z <zhushe...@gmail.com> writes:

> I noticed re-search-forward has a corresponding backward version,
> while string-match doesn't have in the manual.  Dose
> string-match-backward exist?

What does `string-match' have to do with searching?  Maybe you mean
`search-forward' and its counterpart `search-backward'?

Bye,
Tassilo