Topic: removing parenthesis from a list item

[andrew_nao]

last PIA queston for today...  :ugly:

I have a list item that has parenthesis
((12345))


if i convert it to string (which is what i want) i get
(12345)

how can i get rid of the parenthesis
to just be a string "12345"
or a list item 12345
either or will work for me

[kruuger]

last PIA queston for today...  :ugly:

I have a list item that has parenthesis
((12345))


if i convert it to string (which is what i want) i get
(12345)

how can i get rid of the parenthesis
to just be a string "12345"
or a list item 12345
either or will work for me

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(itoa (caar (list (list 12345))))k.

[ronjonp]

I thought I had seen something posted earlier:  (vl-string-trim "()" "((12345))")

I assume you have a bunch of these in a list. This will remove them from the sublists:

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(mapcar 'car '((123) (456) (789)))
And take it one step further creating the strings:

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(mapcar 'vl-princ-to-string (mapcar 'car '((123) (456) (789))))

[Lee Mac]

More information needed I think.

If it really is only one item, and such item contains an integer, I would agree with kruuger and use:

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(itoa (caar '((12345))))

[andrew_nao]

thanks once again for the replies.

i got it figured out after i posted this