Re: Dude where is my car ?

[Philippe M. Coatmeur <philippe.coatmeur@gmail.com>]

At Sat, 26 May 2012 10:51:26 +0800,
Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Since x equals ("<test@adamweb.net>" "Fri, 25 May 2012 23:49:58 +0200"
> "Re: plopz" "1648") in your second example, the car of that is
> "<test@adamweb.net>", and you can't take the car of that again, because
> it fails to pass the listp test. I think where you're going wrong is
> that nthcdr returns a list, so you can car it. Car itself returns an
> atom, so you can't.
> 
> Have I got that right?
> 
> Also, the whole thing might be easier to read/debug if you use "first"
> "second" "third" "fourth" to extract the list elements. Or, if that
> seems too unscientific, then "nth", that also pulls a single element out
> of a list.
> 
> Eric

I did now know of those "first, second, etc" things, thanks. Turns out
I had to send the vars as such and then do the format at the last
stage of the text processing, witch makes sense. Thanks for your
patience.

Philippe

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