From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Exporter] How to extract timestamp from headline's title?
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 01:15:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uwp19s1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87iovtjpjm.fsf@gmail.com
Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
Hello,
> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> when writing an exporter backend, I wonder what is the canonical way to
>> extract the (optional) timestamp element from a headline's :title
>> attribute (which holds a secondary string)?
>>
>> I could do something like this to extract the timestamp from the headline
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>> (let ((ttl (org-element-property :title headline)))
>> (and (> (length ttl) 1)
>> (car (last ttl))))
>> #+end_src
>>
>> but I hope there is a more straight-forward and reliable way to do
>> this?
>
> You can map over a secondary string. E.g.:
>
> (org-element-map (org-element-property :title headline) 'timestamp
> 'identity)
I knew there must be a better way to do this - thanks for the tip!
--
cheers,
Thorsten
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2013-11-15 20:59 [Exporter] How to extract timestamp from headline's title? Thorsten Jolitz
2013-11-15 21:58 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-11-16 0:15 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
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