Re: Getting substring

[Heime]

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On Thursday, August 17th, 2023 at 1:18 AM, Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> 
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> ------- Original Message -------
> On Wednesday, August 16th, 2023 at 9:26 PM, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > I have a variable named 'multistr' which may consist of multiple parts 
> > separated by spaces.
> > How can I get the string before the first space in elisp ?
> > 
> > (setq multistr "this that")
> > (message "%s" str) giving "this"
> 
> 
> Have used
> 
> (setq str "bigoplus ⨁︁")
> (message "%s TEST: " (car (split-string str)))
> (setq str "bigoplus︁")
> (message "%s TEST: " (car (split-string str)))
> 
> But there is something very wrong with it.

Why does the following not print the first word?

(message "%s TEST: " (car (split-string grafm)))