From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is result of `car' =?utf-8?Q?=E2=87=92?= quote ? Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:24:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87h74nr19s.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87letzr1n6.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20373"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:O4HXVWKrHkDyCnZQlhE+8Ubz2vM= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 14 12:27:08 2022 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 1o13lL-00051I-KS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:27:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51662 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o13lG-000055-Cn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33128) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o13jc-0008VH-Vx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:25:25 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:41568) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o13jO-0008Hv-Mw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o13jK-00026r-Ey for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:25:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:137828 Archived-At: >> Here I do not understand it quite, why do I get result of >> `car' below, to be `quote'? >> >> (nth 2 (car exporters)) ; ("Block 227, Plot 20086, Kakajja >> Zone") (car (nth 2 (car exporters))) ; quote > > And the answer is ... > > You have quoted the list twice! > > (setq exporters '((1 2 '("Block 227, Plot 20086, Kakajja Zone")))) > > (nth 2 (car exporters)) ; '("Block 227, Plot 20086, Kakajja Zone") > > (car (nth 2 (car exporters))) ; quote Instead of quoting the list twice, use `list' three times (setq exporters (list (list 1 2 (list "Block 227, Plot 20086, Kakajja Zone")))) (nth 2 (car exporters)) (car (nth 2 (car exporters))) ; "Block 227, Plot 20086, Kakajja Zone" and then it works :) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal