Re: how to extract the content of a cc field

[Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>]

Uwe Brauer wrote:

> So 
>
> For example 
>
> Cc: user1 <user1@gmail.com>, user2 <user2@gmx.net>
>
> Extracts user1 <user1@gmail.com>, user2 <user2@gmx.net>
>
> Has to be expected. 
>
> Would it be possible to extract
>
> Ccname user1
> ccfrom user1@gmail.com

I once did something similar:

;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
;;;
;;; this file:
;;;   http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/match-data-format.el
;;;   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/match-data-format.el

(defun make-match-list (num string)
  (let ((match (match-string num string)))
    (when match (cons match (make-match-list (1+ num) string))) ))

(defun match-data-format (data match format-str)
  (save-match-data
    (string-match match data)
    (apply #'message format-str (make-match-list 1 data)) ))

(when nil
    (match-data-format
     "From: Joe Hacker <get@this.data>"
     "\\(.*\\): *\\(.*[[:alnum:]]\\) *<\\(.*\\)>"
     "header is: %s\nname is: %s\ne-mail is: %s")
    )                                          ; ^eval me

;; output from eval'd command:
;;
;; header is: From
;; name is: Joe Hacker
;; e-mail is: get@this.data


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