I Put three lines with data

19991201
19991202
19991203

Into another buffer loaded the below code into another buffer
evaluated the code then switched to the other buffer
The en ran the command

M-x jh-iso-to-chinese


Emacs just switched to the other buffer

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jh-iso-to-chinese

This is what is in the messages buffer

Is the cursor supposed to be before the dates to be converted or after?

Jesper Harder wrote:

>swk <sunwukong@hananet.net> writes:
>
>  
>
>>Each line starts with a modified ISO date    e.g.,   19991203   (YYYYMMDD)
>>
>>Is there any way to pull the ISO Dates to a file and then append the
>>equivilant Chinese dates to a file?
>>    
>>
>
>I don't think there's any predefined functionality for that.  Here's a
>suggestion for a way you could implement it.  
>
>Evaluate the following, load the file with the ISO dates in a buffer and
>do `M-x jh-iso-to-chinese', which will put the Chinese dates in another
>buffer.
>
>
>(defun jh-iso-to-chinese ()
>  (interactive)
>  (goto-char (point-min))
>  (while (re-search-forward "^\\([[:digit:]]\\{4\\}\\)\\([[:digit:]]\\{2\\}\\)\\([[:digit:]]\\{2\\}\\)" nil t)
>    (let ((str (format "%s\n" (calendar-chinese-date-string 
>			       (mapcar 'string-to-int 
>				       (list (match-string 1) 
>					     (match-string 2) 
>					     (match-string 3)))))))
>    (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*chinese output*")
>      (insert str))))
>  (switch-to-buffer "*chinese output*"))
>  
>