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From: TheFlyingDutchman <zzbbaadd@aol.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to convert a char to a property
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:12:46 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6eea9888-4043-4f22-9928-b345bcc899e9@z30g2000prg.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87sk358gzw.fsf@decebal.nl

On Jul 27, 1:29 am, Cecil Westerhof <Ce...@decebal.nl> wrote:
> I have the following property list:
>     (defvar dcbl-bbdb-user-defined-fields (list :L "mail-alias"
>                                                 :M "mailer"
>                                                 :P "playlist"
>                                                 :s "subjects"
>                                                 :t "type"
>                                                 :w "website")
>       "User defined fields in the bbdb with parameter to insert into buffer")
>
> With (getf dcbl-bbdb-user-defined-fields :M) I get "mailer".
>
> But I want to work parameter driven. So for example I have:
>      (setq parameters "MLst")
>      (setq current-char (string-to-char parameters))
>
> The variable current-char now contains 77. How could I use
> current-char to retrieve "mailer"?
>
> --
> Cecil Westerhof
> Senior Software Engineer
> LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof


(getf dcbl-bbdb-user-defined-fields
           (intern (concat
              ":"
              (char-to-string current-char)  )  )  )


  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-27 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-27  8:29 How to convert a char to a property Cecil Westerhof
2010-07-27 12:12 ` TheFlyingDutchman [this message]
2010-07-27 22:06   ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-07-27 13:18 ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-07-27 17:59   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-27 22:11     ` Cecil Westerhof

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