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Re: getting output from external process in a variable


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: getting output from external process in a variable
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:03:54 GMT
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

>>>>> "Daan" == Daan Hoogland <emacs@onecht.net> writes:
> groupname:member1,member2 and I want it in a list:
> (list "groupname" (list "member1" "member2"))

  (when (re-search-forward ":\\([^,]*\\)," nil t)
    (list (buffer-substring (point-min) (match-beginning 0))
          (list (match-string 1)
                (buffer-substring (point) (point-max)))))

I don't recommend the above style (especially using (point) instead of
(match-end 0)), but that should get you started.


        Stefan


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