From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philip Kaludercic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Getting substring Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 07:39:58 +0000 Message-ID: <878r9ztvsh.fsf@posteo.net> References: <87edjyd5pf.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12357"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 25 09:40:17 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qZRQW-0002z8-Qq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:40:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qZRQM-0003ug-Vi; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 03:40:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qZRQL-0003uW-Ci for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 03:40:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qZRQH-0006so-Fw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 03:40:04 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [185.67.36.169]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 34EF7240101 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:39:59 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1692949199; bh=1EGkVQG9AQk+D+aO82QL8G65GjqRlcusPqzLzrbovck=; h=From:To:Subject:Autocrypt:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:From; b=KdcEF9bVo+gHQAutuhxD8jntkLJV4i6TDNEwa694+dt0hnKl11aV4iVFzudcZxP8i gX0bthmITRXFifF8l8PGWULAPvGFRmCsPre9zBCvejuCGVOOnMJLkFVhofPgPTZt5s dVziAagnu5eK97wUhLu+Wb1Q6ig2YrKUlhIGS/Jm2DVx54AL4NRe38oRNTx8A5Pk/h qXz3kd/Mn+3Iwfbnhj6PMYj/61tpmi4I/YrNB4LYJX34rQ1xcW2wn01MQJ6k8nRZuc s0CuU5KZi1qEAPKYpl38Pkxxc2/zTbDhV6CjFoTROcce36B10duxHCJ/cf34eCyi0l uz/IFIJMjPmRQ== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4RXBgL5pW8z9rxS for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:39:58 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87edjyd5pf.fsf@dataswamp.org> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:31:56 +0200") Autocrypt: addr=philipk@posteo.net; keydata= mDMEZBBQQhYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAHJuofBrfqFh12uQu0Yi7mrl525F28eTmwUDflFNmdui0QlBo aWxpcCBLYWx1ZGVyY2ljIChnZW5lcmF0ZWQgYnkgYXV0b2NyeXB0LmVsKSA8cGhpbGlwa0Bwb3N0 ZW8ubmV0PoiWBBMWCAA+FiEEDg7HY17ghYlni8XN8xYDWXahwukFAmQQUEICGwMFCQHhM4AFCwkI BwIGFQoJCAsCBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQ8xYDWXahwulikAEA77hloUiSrXgFkUVJhlKBpLCHUjA0 mWZ9j9w5d08+jVwBAK6c4iGP7j+/PhbkxaEKa4V3MzIl7zJkcNNjHCXmvFcEuDgEZBBQQhIKKwYB BAGXVQEFAQEHQI5NLiLRjZy3OfSt1dhCmFyn+fN/QKELUYQetiaoe+MMAwEIB4h+BBgWCAAmFiEE Dg7HY17ghYlni8XN8xYDWXahwukFAmQQUEICGwwFCQHhM4AACgkQ8xYDWXahwukm+wEA8cml4JpK NeAu65rg+auKrPOP6TP/4YWRCTIvuYDm0joBALw98AMz7/qMHvSCeU/hw9PL6u6R2EScxtpKnWof z4oM Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.66; envelope-from=philipk@posteo.net; helo=mout02.posteo.de X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H5=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144956 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg 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---