From: D. Goel <deego@glue.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: ** Q: HOW TO MANIPULATE STRINGS IN A FILE WITH A LISP FUNCTION **
Date: 16 Sep 2002 09:07:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87znuiulp9.fsf@computer.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9e8ebeb2.0209151930.79f76ae9@posting.google.com
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> My problem is very simple for an emacs guru. More than one solution is
> very welcome.
>
> I have a list of numbers in a file as follows:
>
> ABC98789
> DDE90898889
> FRE9090909
;; returns somethign like (("ABC" "DEF" "GGH") ("1123" "223" "332"))
(defun gnuist-contents (file)
""
(let (let-num let num
(letters nil)
(numbers nil))
(find-file file)
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (forward-word 1)
(setq let-num (format "%S" (sexp-at-point)))
(setq let (substring let-num 0 3))
(setq num (substring let-num 3 (length let-num)))
(push let letters)
(push num numbers))
(list (reverse letters) (reverse numbers))))
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2002-09-16 3:30 ** Q: HOW TO MANIPULATE STRINGS IN A FILE WITH A LISP FUNCTION ** gnuist
2002-09-16 13:07 ` D. Goel [this message]
2002-09-17 17:49 ` Barry Margolin
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