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From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
To: Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com>
Cc: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>,
	Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Get second character from comment-start
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:36:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <J5UljGToHxgqEKO9yM730cDIyvCW78_MV_3DVqICH7C5dUsfKVbHLKyJ0pp8QIEn4Q-E9AEVPkMZ8K3SpSz4ifD3ZYkZNSxJ3elUUrIvm7A=@proton.me> (raw)
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On Tuesday, August 13th, 2024 at 10:39 PM, Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com> wrote:

> Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com writes:
> 
> > On Tuesday, August 13th, 2024 at 5:15 PM, Joel Reicher
> > joel.reicher@gmail.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Any reason not to do (aref ... 1)? Not sure what you're worried
> > > about.
> > 
> > What is the standard way of capturing characters from strings,
> > is it with aref ?
> 
> 
> I don't know what makes something "standard" for you. As covered
> in (info "(elisp) String Basics") a string is an array, and as
> covered in (info "(elisp) Array Functions"), aref can be used to
> fetch an element of an array.
> 
> And as a random sample of some core code, aref is used 17 times in
> files.el from what I can see.  - Joel

I shall use aref as already done



      reply	other threads:[~2024-08-13 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-12 19:47 Get second character from comment-start Heime
2024-08-13  5:15 ` Joel Reicher
2024-08-13  8:10   ` Heime
2024-08-13 10:39     ` Joel Reicher
2024-08-13 13:36       ` uzibalqa [this message]

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