Re: [O] [Exporter] How to extract timestamp from headline's title?

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:

Hello,

> Thorsten Jolitz <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> when writing an exporter backend, I wonder what is the canonical way to
>> extract the (optional) timestamp element from a headline's :title
>> attribute (which holds a secondary string)?
>>
>> I could do something like this to extract the timestamp from the headline
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>>   (let ((ttl (org-element-property :title headline)))
>>     (and (> (length ttl) 1)
>>          (car (last ttl))))
>> #+end_src
>>
>> but I hope there is a more straight-forward and reliable way to do
>> this?
>
> You can map over a secondary string. E.g.:
>
>  (org-element-map (org-element-property :title headline) 'timestamp
>  'identity)

I knew there must be a better way to do this - thanks for the tip!

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten