Pulling LINK and DESCRIPTION out of an org link

Pulling LINK and DESCRIPTION out of an org link

[Christopher Howard]

Hi, as part of a little convenience function I was coding for person use, I needed to be able to pull the LINK and DESCRIPTION (if it exists) out of org link strings. It seems like there must be a simple built-in way to do this. I found org-element-link-parser which seemed like just what I needed, but it apparently does not store the DESCRIPTION in the returned link object.

I suppose I could use a regular expression match, but I'm not sure how I would deal with the possibility of escaped "]" and "[" characters inside the LINK or DESCRIPTION.

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Re: Pulling LINK and DESCRIPTION out of an org link

[Rudolf Adamkovič]

Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:

> ... I needed to be able to pull the LINK and DESCRIPTION (if it
> exists) out of org link strings.

This would be better asked on the Org mailing list:

  https://orgmode.org/worg/org-mailing-list.html

Rudy
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