Re: Getting substring

[Heime]

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On Thursday, August 17th, 2023 at 2:52 PM, Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> 
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> On Thursday, August 17th, 2023 at 2:33 PM, Pierre Rouleau 
> prouleau001@gmail.com wrote:
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> > I mean,
> > Executing :
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> > > (setq str "bigoplus ⨁︁")
> > > (message "%s TEST: " (car (split-string str)))
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> > prints bigoplus.
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> > (message "%s TEST: " (car (split-string grafm)))
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> > will depend of what grafm holds.
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> > On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 10:30 PM Pierre Rouleau prouleau001@gmail.com
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> > wrote:
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> > > Why does the following not print the first word?
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> > > > (message "%s TEST: " (car (split-string grafm)))
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> > > Are you sure it does not print it? It prints bigoplus for me.
> > > You can also look into the 'Message' buffer to see what was printed by
> > > the message function. - Pierre
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> I now realise my mistake of putting "%s" before "TEST". I was thus doing 
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> The command (car (split-string grafm)) also works if there are no spaces in
> 'grafm', it still returns the string as a first element in the list result.

Have started to wonder whether the following is wrong to do

(setq grafm "bigoplus ⨁︁")
(pcase (car (split-string grafm))
  "bigoplus" ("Detected bigoplus")) 

It is not a string.