From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Group at several places in string Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:13:52 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87y6k2n9of.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263343254 22096 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2010 00:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:40:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 13 01:40:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NUrHy-0007UL-DP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:40:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NUrHz-0003SN-2Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:40:47 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: individual.net jHU5cyp2L2eKJquNqgAimwZifJwyMZwkWrDVitVo+NOH9Cd+N2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NmE1N2JjMWI4YWE1MTM3MzE4Y2NkZWE4MTQ1NWViNjcyYjY3OTllYQ== sha1:uzAv0svHrN9BbgwWuSV3ZraXPrs= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176127 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71198 Archived-At: Johan Andersson writes: > I have string that contains smaller chunks of text, which  are wrapped within double quotes. Example: > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, "consectetur" adipiscing elit. Donec "suscipit justo" sit amet sem bibendum "sit amet" porttitor mi > pretium. > > I'm looking for a way to add all the chunks in double quotes in a list. So in this case: > '("consectetur" "suscipit justo" "sit amet") > > I have created such a function with help of some while loops and whatever else. But I thought that it could be done with some regex > like this "\"\\([^\"]+\\)\"" and then fetch the groupings. But it does not work. > > How would you solve this? Here is a simple solution: (defun parts-in-double-quotes (input) (loop for sub on (cdr (split-string input "\"")) by (function cddr) collect (car sub))) (parts-in-double-quotes "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, \"consectetur\" adipiscing elit. Donec \"suscipit justo\" sit amet sem bibendum \"sit amet\" porttitor mi pretium.") --> ("consectetur" "suscipit justo" "sit amet") -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/