From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading from a buffer Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:10:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35509"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:8VuU8qt1gc+oWBltsXkbvBDDakw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 01 23:11:19 2020 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 1jqk0k-000987-Jy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:11:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40780 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqk0j-0006fs-G5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:11:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58594) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqk09-0006fe-T8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:10:41 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:43422 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jqk08-0005sB-Cp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:10:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jqk04-0008R3-Jt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:10:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/07/01 13:23:26 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -8 X-Spam_score: -0.9 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:123468 Archived-At: > The function 'buffer-substring-no-properties' is certainly a step in the > right direction, thank you. I've now got it down to: > (setq count (car (read-from-string (buffer-substring-no-properties (mark) > (point))))) > But I'm nothing short of astonished that there is not yet anything in > standard Emacs Lisp that is comparable to a formatted read-from-buffer > statement in a more conventional programming language like Fortran or C. > I'm imagining something akin to '(insert (format...' but working in the > opposite direction, something like '(unformat (read...'. Perhaps I'll just > create my own library of intuitive and easy-to-use buffer I/O functions > since I expect to be doing quite a bit of this sort of thing in the future. Maybe you're looking for: looking-at or re-search-forward followed by match-string ? Stefan