Ian Garmaise writes: > This is working well, except for the property used for the email address. > Unfortunately, I stored this as a gmail link. This makes it difficult to > extract the actual email address using org-collector as follows: > > #+BEGIN: propview :cols ((car (s-split " " ITEM)) EMAIL_ADDRESS) :id > "candidates" :match "testthis" :wrap example > > the result produced looks like this: > > | (car (s-split " " ITEM)) | EMAIL_ADDRESS > | > |--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | "Ciara" | > [[https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=ciaraxyz@gmail\.com]] > | > | "Duncan" | > [[https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=duncanxyz@indeedemail\.com]] | > > I have looked at several methods that I found on the web to extract the > email address from the link in the property, but haven't yet found a > solution that I could get to work. Still building up my elisp skillset, > would appreciate suggestions.
I've never used org-collector, but quickly trying to wire up a function to extract the email part of the text you show, I suspect some of the trouble you're having is that the value comes in as a vector because org-propview-collect processes it with org-babel-read. So perhaps something like this would get you on the right track: (require 'subr-x) (defun my/extract-email-from-link (value) (setq value (format "%S" value)) (when-let ((link (and (string-match org-link-bracket-re value) (org-link-unescape (match-string-no-properties 1 value))))) (thread-last link (replace-regexp-in-string (rx string-start (one-or-more not-newline) "to=" (group (one-or-more not-newline)) string-end) "\\1") (replace-regexp-in-string (rx "\\.") ".")))) --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #+BEGIN: propview :cols ((car (s-split " " ITEM)) (my/extract-email-from-link EMAIL_ADDRESS)) :id global | (car (s-split " " ITEM)) | (my/extract-email-from-link EMAIL_ADDRESS) | |--------------------------+--------------------------------------------| | "Ciara" | "ciara...@gmail.com" | | "Duncan" | "duncan...@indeedemail.com" | |--------------------------+--------------------------------------------| | | | #+END: * Ciara :PROPERTIES: :EMAIL_ADDRESS: [[https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=ciaraxyz@gmail\.com]] :END: * Duncan :PROPERTIES: :EMAIL_ADDRESS: [[https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=duncanxyz@indeedemail\.com]] :END: --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---