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From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting substring
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 07:39:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878r9ztvsh.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edjyd5pf.fsf@dataswamp.org> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:31:56 +0200")

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> Heime wrote:
>
>> How can I get the string before the first space in elisp ?
>>
>> (setq multistr "this that")
>
> (car (split-string "first string")) ; "first"
>
> See the docstring for `split-string'.

Another idea is to use regular expressions and their match data:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(let ((str "this that"))
  (and (string-match "\\([^[:space:]]+\\)[[:space:]]?" str)
       (match-string 1 str)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---



      reply	other threads:[~2023-08-25  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-16  9:26 Getting substring Heime
2023-08-16 13:18 ` Heime
2023-08-17  2:23   ` Heime
2023-08-17  2:30     ` Pierre Rouleau
2023-08-17  2:33       ` Pierre Rouleau
2023-08-17  2:52         ` Heime
2023-08-17  3:01           ` Heime
2023-08-17  3:07             ` Pierre Rouleau
2023-08-17  3:16               ` Heime
2023-08-17 12:37                 ` Pierre Rouleau
2023-08-17  3:01           ` Pierre Rouleau
2023-08-19 22:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-08-25  7:39   ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]

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