From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to convert an arbitrary string into a filename Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:42:04 +0200 Message-ID: <87v8hj8db7.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87wn1z8fgo.fsf@mbork.pl> <4022908b-a023-3b3b-19a4-88ca90d055f3@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36924"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 30.0.50 Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Platon Pronko Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 26 06:43:14 2023 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 1prWzq-0009PH-J1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:43:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1prWyx-0005EL-Jw; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1prWys-0005DU-BI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:42:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1prWyq-0006BY-5K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:42:13 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 332EC976F0B; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:42:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 63UZu-tcgP5O; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:42:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (178235147137.dynamic-3-poz-k-0-1-0.vectranet.pl [178.235.147.137]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2C26E99A389; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:42:05 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <4022908b-a023-3b3b-19a4-88ca90d055f3@gmail.com> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=195.110.48.8; envelope-from=mbork@mbork.pl; helo=mail.mojserwer.eu X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143387 Archived-At: On 2023-04-26, at 06:03, Platon Pronko wrote: > On 2023-04-26 11:55, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >> Hi all, >> given an arbitrary string, say "Hello, world!!!", I want to have >> a filename with all the runs of weird characters (that is, >> non-alphanumeric ones) converted to dashes (say, "Hello-world"). Is >> there a function for that in Emacs already or should I write my own? > > Something like this? > > (let ((input "Hello, world!!!")) > (replace-regexp-in-string "[^a-zA-Z0-9]+" "-" input)) > ;; "Hello-world-" More or less, possibly with trimming - I know it's simple, I just didn't want to do it if it already exists. Which I still don't know... (I suppose not, but I'm not sure.) Thanks, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl