From: gareth.rees@pobox.com (Gareth Rees)
Subject: Re: getting output from external process in a variable
Date: 30 Jan 2004 07:39:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e867ce6d.0401300739.60cc14ca@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1600.1075460572.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Daan Hoogland wrote:
> I end up with [a buffer containing lines of the form]
> groupname:member1,member2 and I want it in a list:
> (list "groupname" (list "member1" "member2"))
(require 'cl)
(defun munge-buffer ()
(goto-char (point-min))
(loop while (re-search-forward "^\\(\\w+\\):\\(\\w+\\),\\(\\w+\\)$" nil t)
collect `(,(match-string 1) (,(match-string 2) ,(match-string 3)))))
--
Gareth Rees
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-30 15:39 UTC|newest]
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2004-01-30 15:39 ` Gareth Rees [this message]
2004-01-30 16:03 ` getting output from external process in a variable Stefan Monnier
2004-01-30 21:28 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-02-05 8:01 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-01-30 11:02 Daan Hoogland
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