From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: print out all members of a list Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:10:11 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87y64zvvf0.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <4D6BBD34.6050407@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298988102 9460 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2011 14:01:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 14:01:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 15:01:37 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PuQ8q-0002tm-J3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:01:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40911 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PuPod-0008Sa-Pe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:40:39 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Trace: individual.net RF8AkxVowMihDQ4F7IDYMQDTi0U4MUdtAo8tCu8so+u5FnAD7d Cancel-Lock: sha1:ODEwNThhY2JlOTE0ODllMzVjZDk4ZmMzYWMxMjFmM2VlZmU0ZmFkYg== sha1:BIBreVSLAhFosCLdINpAtY6t9RQ= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185474 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:79627 Archived-At: Andreas Röhler writes: > Am 28.02.2011 16:20, schrieb ken: >> (car '("one" "two" "three")) >> >> prints out "one" ... the first of the list. How to print out all >> elements of the list (in order and with the double quotes around them? >> I'm actually looking just to substitute something for "car" and not >> write an entire function. Or is there no such thing? >> >> Thanks much. >> >> > > and still a form delivering with doublequotes... > > (let ((my-list (list "one" "two" "three"))) > (dolist (elem my-list) > (insert (format "\n\"%s\"" elem)))) Why do you write broken code? (let ((my-list (list "o\"n\"e" "t\"wo" "th\\\"ree"))) (dolist (elem my-list) (insert (format "\n\"%s\"" elem)))) "o"n"e" "t"wo" "th\"ree" Is it not easier to write code that works? (let ((my-list (list "o\"n\"e" "t\"wo" "th\\\"ree"))) (dolist (elem my-list) (insert (format "\n%s" (prin1-to-string elem))))) "o\"n\"e" "t\"wo" "th\\\"ree" -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.