From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Luis O. Silva" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: a function for string splitting Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:21:17 +0300 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <15846.24221.725980.63024@localhost.localdomain> References: <86u1i4pbnv.fsf@bigwalter.net> <84k7ixsrvr.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> Reply-To: "Luis O. Silva" NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038506501 2058 80.91.224.249 (28 Nov 2002 18:01:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 18:01:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18HSyo-0000Wx-00 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 19:01:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18HSzl-0006kl-00; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:02:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18HSyu-0005HV-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:01:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18HSyr-0005DV-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:01:42 -0500 Original-Received: from relay.wplus.net ([195.131.52.142]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18HSyq-0005Ag-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:01:40 -0500 X-Real-To: Original-Received: from emaile.wplus.net (emaile.wplus.net [195.131.52.155]) by relay.wplus.net (8.9.1/8.9.1/wplus.2) with ESMTP id VAA35708 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:01:39 +0300 (MSK) Original-Received: by emaile.wplus.net with scanned-ok (WebPlus antispam mailer ) id 18HSyj-000KV0-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:01:33 +0300 Original-Received: from [195.131.51.98] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by emaile.wplus.net with esmtp (WebPlus antispam mailer ) id 18HSyh-000KUi-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:01:32 +0300 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <84k7ixsrvr.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.97 under Emacs 21.1.1 X-Virus-Scanned: by AVP (http://www.avp.ru/) X-IP: 195.131.51.98 X-From: silva@paloma.spbu.ru Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4127 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4127 Hello Kai, On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:14:48 +0100, Kai Gro=DFjohann writes: Kai> "Luis O. Silva" writes: >> Thank you for your suggestion, the problem here is that >> my starting point is a string. Lee suggested what I >> needed. Kai> parse-time-string appears to be useful for in that Kai> case. Using parse-time-string, you convert the date Kai> into an internal representation, then using Kai> format-time-string, you convert it back into the Kai> external representation. I didn't find the function `parse-time-string' in my Emacs system (21.1.1). It seems that I need an upgrade. Thanks, luis --=20 Luis Octavio Silva P. St. Petersburg State University. 66/3 Botanicheskaya St., Apt.119/2 Stary Peterhof St. Petersburg, Russia.