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From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to intersperse commands with their output in RESULTS block?
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 10:07:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a75ugz4j.fsf@alphapapa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAGY83EcCfpZRedophS4FN6yMrx_D_mOf7Mkrt7VtFQiKD6xSSQ@mail.gmail.com

Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org> writes:

> I came up with the following block, which cleans up all the cruft from
> the output of the =script= command and produces a nicely formatted
> session transcript:
>
> #+NAME: cleanup
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var data="" :results value :exports none
>   (replace-regexp-in-string
>    "\\$ exit\\(.\\|\n\\)*$" ""
>    (replace-regexp-in-string
>     "^bash-.*\\$" "$"
>     (replace-regexp-in-string
>      "\\(\\(.\\|\n\\)*?\\)\\$\\(.\\|\n\\)*\\'" ""
>      (replace-regexp-in-string "
> " "" data) nil nil 1)))
> #+END_SRC
>
> (I am not happy with the regexp nesting and repetition above, I am not
> an expert yet in emacs-lisp regex facilities. Suggestions appreciated
> for how to simplify it).

Hi Diego,

A few suggestions:

1.  You can use `rx' to define regexps in a Lispy way, and the ELPA
package `xr' converts existing regexp strings to the rx format, which
can help in learning rx syntax.  For example:

  (xr "^bash-.*\\$" 'brief) ;;=> (seq bol "bash-" (0+ nonl) "$")

So you can use that regexp like:

  (replace-regexp-in-string (rx bol "bash-" (0+ nonl) "$") ...)

This nasty one is much easier with rx:

  (xr "\\(\\(.\\|\n\\)*?\\)\\$\\(.\\|\n\\)*\\'" 'brief)
  ;;=>
  ;; (seq (group (*? (group anything)))
  ;;      "$" (0+ (group anything)) eos)

2.  To avoid the nested calls, you can use a loop, like:

  (cl-loop for (match replace) in
           (list (list (rx foo bar) "replacement"))
           do (setf string
                    (replace-regexp-in-string match replace
                                              string)))

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-07 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-05 17:25 How to intersperse commands with their output in RESULTS block? Diego Zamboni
2020-02-06  6:55 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 20:45   ` Diego Zamboni
2020-02-07 15:26     ` Diego Zamboni
2020-02-07 15:49       ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-07 16:07       ` Adam Porter [this message]
2020-02-07 21:30         ` Diego Zamboni
2020-02-08 10:04           ` Fraga, Eric

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