From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is result of `car' =?utf-8?B?4oeS?= =?utf-8?Q?_quote?= ? [SOLVED] Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:53:15 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87letzr1n6.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87h74nr19s.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17818"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-05-21) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 14 23:55:52 2022 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 1o1EVq-0004JJ-7e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2022 23:55:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36612 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1EVo-0007m4-MO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53314) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1EUU-0007it-6V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:54:26 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:40967) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1EUS-0006FV-Gm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:54:25 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.82.13.144]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000087CDE.0000000062A9036E.00006D77; Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:53:50 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87h74nr19s.fsf@dataswamp.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137841 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg [2022-06-14 13:27]: > >> Here I do not understand it quite, why do I get result of > >> `car' below, to be `quote'? > >> > >> (nth 2 (car exporters)) ; ("Block 227, Plot 20086, Kakajja > >> Zone") (car (nth 2 (car exporters))) ; quote > > > > And the answer is ... > > > > You have quoted the list twice! > > > > (setq exporters '((1 2 '("Block 227, Plot 20086, Kakajja Zone")))) > > > > (nth 2 (car exporters)) ; '("Block 227, Plot 20086, Kakajja Zone") > > > > (car (nth 2 (car exporters))) ; quote > > Instead of quoting the list twice, use `list' three times > > (setq exporters (list (list 1 2 (list "Block 227, Plot 20086, Kakajja Zone")))) > (nth 2 (car exporters)) > (car (nth 2 (car exporters))) ; "Block 227, Plot 20086, Kakajja Zone" > > and then it works :) That is what I did now, thanks. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/