title: How do I access the contents of the current region in Emacs Lisp?
body: <p>I want to access the contents of the current region as a string within a function.  For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>(concat "stringa" (get-region-as-string) "stringb")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
  <p>Ed</p>