From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: elispQ: How can I extract text from #("text" ... ) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:14:52 -0700 Message-ID: <003701c8960a$6ec59120$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207282678 15850 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2008 04:17:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 04:17:58 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Mirko'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 04 06:18:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JhdNk-0005zw-L5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:18:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhdN7-0000SQ-VO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:17:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhdMo-0000RY-JE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:17:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhdMl-0000Ql-1D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:17:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhdMk-0000Qi-QK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhdMk-0008R6-Dw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m344GStX029962; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 22:16:28 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m32F5BcY025484; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 22:16:27 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3636740531207282493; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:14:53 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.82.71) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:14:53 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AciWABEI+cXcU6LGTjukXbNQ0FiZswACiW+w X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53034 Archived-At: > values such as: > #("Typically only electric field is assigned" 0 41 (face font-lock- > string-face fontified t))) > > Now, these are variables of type string. How can I extract just the > text from it? You can use function `substring-no-properties' to give you a plain string that has no face or other properties. But you might not need to. What do you want to do with the resulting text (string)?