How to match 47 characters in a string with Emacs Lisp? Aug 22, 2023 (setq link "[[abbrv:assets/archive/2023-08-09_9c6b04b4-0076-44d0-a241-063a2d899544_2023-08-22T17:43:44+0200.html]]") (progn (string-match "archive/\\(.\\{47\\}\\)" link) (match-string 1 link))