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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Cecil Westerhof <CecilWesterhof@xs4all.nl>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Making a list to string
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:47:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <de23dea9f5e7f18e1e8fe2c1b91d4150@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184217817.6283.165.camel@Barebusta.DecebalComp>


On Jul 12, 2007, at 7:23, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> And when I put ';S' after the formula, I get the same as with nothing
> after the formula.
> Why this error by ';N'?
> Also what is the meaning of the strange expansion by concat? Maybe not
> neccesary, but I like to understand what is happening.

When you put "N", each field is converted into a number before
it is interpolated into the formula. So "2007-02-02" becomes
2007, and it is inserted *as a number* into the Lisp form.
concat is a function that concatenates string - it cannot handle
numbers, so it throws an error.

- Carsten

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-13 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-11 20:43 Making a list to string Cecil Westerhof
2007-07-11 21:54 ` Eddward DeVilla
2007-07-11 21:59   ` Eddward DeVilla
2007-07-12  5:23     ` Cecil Westerhof
2007-07-12  6:04       ` Eddward DeVilla
2007-07-12  6:10         ` Cecil Westerhof
2007-07-13 13:47       ` Carsten Dominik [this message]

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