all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: pack/unpack perl like functions ?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:44:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <em795p$1ab$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lkm3lncy.fsf@zogzog.gnu-rox.org>

Xavier Maillard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have already asked this question but not here.
> 
> I am looking for pack/unpack perl-like functions in elisp.
> 
> unpack takes a string and expands it out as a list of values
> (pack does the opposite).
> 
> Are you aware of something like this ?

(append "foo" nil) => (102 111 111)

(equal '(102 111 111) '(?f ?o ?o)) => t

(apply 'string '(?f ?o ?o)) => "foo"

-- 
Kevin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-18 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-22 11:41 pack/unpack perl like functions ? Xavier Maillard
2006-12-18 20:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-12-18 23:44 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2006-12-19 10:53   ` Johan Bockgård
2006-12-19  9:45 ` Kim F. Storm

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='em795p$1ab$1@sea.gmane.org' \
    --to=ihs_4664@yahoo.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.