Re: How to properly parse a buffer into a list ?

[Philippe M . Coatmeur]

At Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:17:54 +0200,
Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> 
> Philippe M. Coatmeur <philippe.coatmeur@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi ; I have this perl-script that prints email elements separated by
> > the string : "|_|".
> 
> If you could modify it so that it prints a sexp, it would be easier to
> read it in emacs.
> 
>     (("abc" "@" "example" "com")
>      ("def" "@" "example" "com"))
> 
> you could then just use:
> 
>     (with-current-buffer buf
>        (goto-char (point-min))
>        (read buf))

Simple, brilliant, bravo Pascal :) (Damnit, if it was'nt for the
second "i" in "brilliant", this sentence would be readable in both
english and french :( )

> 
> 
> > Problem is, this function moves in terms of lines (it puts evey single
> > line in a list cell), but my elements can easily span over several
> > lines, and I'd still wouldlike one such element to be a single list
> > cell..? 
> 
> How do you separate email addresses then?

Well I overlooked this problem, but your solution solved it even
before we were introduced ;)

> 
> 
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