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Re: How to replace format-like codes in a string?
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Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: How to replace format-like codes in a string? |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:19:45 +0100 |
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mu4e 0.9.17; emacs 26.0.50.3 |
On 2016-11-11, at 09:48, Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11 2016, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> I want to write a function like `format', which gets a string
>> with some
>> codes embedded (like "%a", "%b" etc., and "%%" to get a
>> percentage
>> sign), and convert them to something (say, "%a" to the value of
>> var-a,
>> "%b" to var-b etc.). Is there any facility in Elisp to help
>> with that
>> or do I have to do a search-and-replace manually?
>
> See `format-spec' and `format-spec-make'.
Thanks a lot! That was exactly what I needed. (I mean, `format-spec';
I'm not sure why I would need `format-spec-make', assuming that I can
just use backquote and comma.)
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski