Re: How to parse a string?

[Francois Fleuret]

Hi,

Greg Hill wrote on 01 May 2003 02:54:20 MET:

> (let ((instring "10 20 wordA wordB wordC"))
>    (setq instring (split-string instring))
>    (append (list (string-to-number (pop instring))
>                        (string-to-number (pop instring)))
>                 instring))

Thanks a lot!

But is there a generic way to do such a thing ? No scanf equivalent
around ?

FF