From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: break a chunk of text into a list of lines Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:33:22 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2c77458e-8f68-41e0-831e-6643e41d9cc0@e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> References: <3d16ac18-967c-4511-8c9c-9a80c40c3d8e@x16g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226692100 24243 80.91.229.12 (14 Nov 2008 19:48:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:48:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 20:49:22 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 1L14fP-0005aI-JP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:49:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33060 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L14eH-00049O-2e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:48:09 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2!postnews.google.com!e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1226691203 1875 127.0.0.1 (14 Nov 2008 19:33:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164465 comp.emacs:97357 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:46:51 -0500 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:59798 Archived-At: On Nov 14, 5:24 am, Matt Price wrote: > I have a python script that queries my evolution database and returns a > series of lines, with one address per line: > > ... > > is there a simple way > to take each line of a text block and turn it into a list of lines? if your text is already a string, then you can use split-string to turn it into a list, by using =E2=80=9C\n=E2=80=9D as separator. You can turn a block of text into a string by using buffer-substring- no-properties. alternatively, the following i wrote in my early lisp day that does what you want. I still use it. (defun grab-lines (n) "Delete the next n lines and return a list where each element is a line." (interactive) (move-beginning-of-line 1) (let (t1 t2 cl (lines '())) (dotimes (x n) (progn (setq t1 (point)) (move-end-of-line nil) (setq t2 (point)) (setq cl (buffer-substring-no-properties t1 t2)) (delete-region t1 t2) (delete-char 1) (push cl lines) ) ) (setq lines (reverse lines)) ; (prin1 lines (current-buffer)) )) for some detail about this code, see: =E2=80=A2 Elisp Lesson: Writing a google-earth Function http://xahlee.org/emacs/google-earth.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84