Re: How to parse a string?

[Greg Hill]

At 1:42 AM +0200 5/1/03, François Fleuret wrote:
> For instance, given a string which I know is composed of 5 fields of
> type integer/integer/word/word/word, separated by spaces, how can I
> transform this string into a list of the objects?

(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))

--Greg