Re: Getting substring

[Heime]

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On Thursday, August 17th, 2023 at 2:33 PM, Pierre Rouleau 
<prouleau001@gmail.com> wrote:


> I mean,
> Executing :
> 
> > (setq str "bigoplus ⨁︁")
> > (message "%s TEST: " (car (split-string str)))
> 
> 
> prints bigoplus.
> 
> but
> 
> (message "%s TEST: " (car (split-string grafm)))
> 
> will depend of what grafm holds.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 10:30 PM Pierre Rouleau prouleau001@gmail.com
> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Why does the following not print the first word?
> > 
> > > (message "%s TEST: " (car (split-string grafm)))
> > 
> > Are you sure it does not print it? It prints bigoplus for me.
> > You can also look into the 'Message' buffer to see what was printed by
> > the message function. - Pierre

I now realise my mistake of putting "%s" before "TEST".  I was thus doing things
correctly after all.

The command (car (split-string grafm)) also works if there are no spaces in
'grafm', it still returns the string as a first element in the list result.