From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to replace format-like codes in a string?
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:48:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877f8afllx.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvh677a4.fsf@mbork.pl>
On Fri, Nov 11 2016, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> I want to write a function like `format', which gets a string
> with some
> codes embedded (like "%a", "%b" etc., and "%%" to get a
> percentage
> sign), and convert them to something (say, "%a" to the value of
> var-a,
> "%b" to var-b etc.). Is there any facility in Elisp to help
> with that
> or do I have to do a search-and-replace manually?
See `format-spec' and `format-spec-make'.
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-11 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-11 8:25 How to replace format-like codes in a string? Marcin Borkowski
2016-11-11 8:48 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2016-11-11 12:19 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-11-13 10:29 ` Joost Kremers
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