Re: difficulty extracting email address from property field containing gmail link

[Ian Garmaise <ian.g@phorixsol.com>]

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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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