From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Ian Garmaise <ian.g@phorixsol.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: difficulty extracting email address from property field containing gmail link
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:42:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ51ETp3Zn8d0CGt60_+UhrA5arkG6_0v=5e4cVZZERK8HPhRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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I think code like this would also work:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(let* ((url "
https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&fs=1&to=duncanxyz@indeedemail.com")
(struct (url-generic-parse-url url))
(filename (url-filename struct)))
(cadr (assoc "to" (url-parse-query-string filename))))
#+END_SRC
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 7:51 AM Ian Garmaise <ian.g@phorixsol.com> wrote:
> Thanks Kyle, got it to work this way:
>
> #+BEGIN: propview :cols ((car (s-split " " ITEM)) (s-chop-prefix "gmail:"
> (my/extract-email-from-link EMAIL_ADDRESS))) :id "candidates" :match
> "testthis" :wrap example
> | (car (s-split " " ITEM)) | (s-chop-prefix "gmail:"
> (my/extract-email-from-link EMAIL_ADDRESS)) |
>
> |--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------|
> | "Ciara" | "ciaraxxxx@gmail.com"
> |
> | "Duncan" | "duncanxxxx@indeedemail.com"
> |
>
> Thanks a million!
>
> Ian
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 10:39 PM Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
>
>> Ian Garmaise writes:
>>
>> > This is working well, except for the property used for the email
>> address.
>> > Unfortunately, I stored this as a gmail link. This makes it difficult
>> to
>> > extract the actual email address using org-collector as follows:
>> >
>> > #+BEGIN: propview :cols ((car (s-split " " ITEM)) EMAIL_ADDRESS) :id
>> > "candidates" :match "testthis" :wrap example
>> >
>> > the result produced looks like this:
>> >
>> > | (car (s-split " " ITEM)) | EMAIL_ADDRESS
>> |
>> >
>> |--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
>> > | "Ciara" | [[
>> https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=ciaraxyz@gmail\.com]]
>> |
>> > | "Duncan" | [[
>> https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=duncanxyz@indeedemail\.com]]
>> |
>> >
>> > I have looked at several methods that I found on the web to extract the
>> > email address from the link in the property, but haven't yet found a
>> > solution that I could get to work. Still building up my elisp skillset,
>> > would appreciate suggestions.
>>
>> I've never used org-collector, but quickly trying to wire up a function
>> to extract the email part of the text you show, I suspect some of the
>> trouble you're having is that the value comes in as a vector because
>> org-propview-collect processes it with org-babel-read. So perhaps
>> something like this would get you on the right track:
>>
>> (require 'subr-x)
>>
>> (defun my/extract-email-from-link (value)
>> (setq value (format "%S" value))
>> (when-let ((link (and (string-match org-link-bracket-re value)
>> (org-link-unescape
>> (match-string-no-properties 1 value)))))
>> (thread-last
>> link
>> (replace-regexp-in-string
>> (rx string-start (one-or-more not-newline) "to="
>> (group (one-or-more not-newline)) string-end)
>> "\\1")
>> (replace-regexp-in-string (rx "\\.") "."))))
>>
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> #+BEGIN: propview :cols ((car (s-split " " ITEM))
>> (my/extract-email-from-link EMAIL_ADDRESS)) :id global
>> | (car (s-split " " ITEM)) | (my/extract-email-from-link EMAIL_ADDRESS) |
>> |--------------------------+--------------------------------------------|
>> | "Ciara" | "ciaraxyz@gmail.com" |
>> | "Duncan" | "duncanxyz@indeedemail.com" |
>> |--------------------------+--------------------------------------------|
>> | | |
>> #+END:
>>
>> * Ciara
>> :PROPERTIES:
>> :EMAIL_ADDRESS: [[
>> https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=ciaraxyz@gmail\.com]]
>> :END:
>>
>> * Duncan
>> :PROPERTIES:
>> :EMAIL_ADDRESS: [[
>> https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=duncanxyz@indeedemail\.com
>> ]]
>> :END:
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-30 2:18 difficulty extracting email address from property field containing gmail link Ian Garmaise
2020-11-30 3:39 ` Kyle Meyer
2020-11-30 12:41 ` Ian Garmaise
2020-11-30 13:42 ` John Kitchin [this message]
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