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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: How to replace format-like codes in a string?
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:25:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvh677a4.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)

Hi list,

I want to write a function like `format', which gets a string with some
codes embedded (like "%a", "%b" etc., and "%%" to get a percentage
sign), and convert them to something (say, "%a" to the value of var-a,
"%b" to var-b etc.).  Is there any facility in Elisp to help with that
or do I have to do a search-and-replace manually?

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski



             reply	other threads:[~2016-11-11  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-11  8:25 Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2016-11-11  8:48 ` How to replace format-like codes in a string? Joost Kremers
2016-11-11 12:19   ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-11-13 10:29     ` Joost Kremers

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