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newLISP in the real world / passing format a list of strings

February 21, 2011, 01:16:14 AM

I have a function run-sh defined as so:

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(define (run-sh sTr) (exec (format {'%s'} sTr)))

run-sh is a kind of basic function that takes input sTr - the shell command.

newLISP can call it like this:

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(run-sh {ls -a -l})

or, so i wish. The problem is this is my error message:

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sh: ls -a -l: command not found

I know you're probably wondering 'why not use (exec ...?' but, let's say, if I wanted to do this, how can i pass a list of strings to run-sh such that the first string is the command name, and have newLISP pass the remaining strings as the command's arguments?

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#2

newLISP in the real world / Re: replacing a period in a string using replace

February 18, 2011, 04:47:41 PM

Thank you, itistoday.

#3

newLISP in the real world / Re: replacing a period in a string using replace

February 18, 2011, 02:51:27 PM

Oh. Thank you ;}.

So, the return value of (exec "pbpaste") is a list (of strings), and in this case the first element of that list is the string "Object.Oriented.Analysis."

Can you have println print without the trailing newline?

#4

newLISP in the real world / replacing a period in a string using replace

February 18, 2011, 10:14:57 AM

i'm using textexpander on mac os x. the result of the following code is no output. nothing.

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#!/usr/bin/newlisp
(set 'text (exec "pbpaste"))
(replace {.} text " " 0)

I want to replace every occurance of the period {.} with a space " "...

The following code also produces no output:

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#!/usr/bin/env newlisp
(set 'text (string (exec "pbpaste")))
(println (parse (replace {.} text " " 0) ""))

same:

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#!/usr/bin/env newlisp
(set 'text (string (exec "pbpaste")))
(set 'text2 (parse (replace {.} text " ") ""))
(println text2)
(exit)

even if i use #!/usr/bin/newlisp in the prologue of the script, i still get nothing

1. yes i can execute newlisp in the shell with either /usr/bin/newlisp or /usr/bin/env newlisp .

2. yes, the textexpander macro definition type is set to shell script.

the result of evaluating the first code block above in newlisp from the shell when i copy the string "Object.Oriented.Analysis." (without double quotes) is:

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> (set 'text (exec "pbpaste"))
("Object.Oriented.Analysis.")
> (replace "." text " " 0)
(" ")

the result of evaluating the second code block above in newlisp from the shell when i copy the string "Object.Oriented.Analysis." (without double quotes) is:

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> (set 'text (string (exec "pbpaste")))
"("Object.Oriented.Analysis.")"
> (println (parse (replace {.} text " " 0) ""))
("                                    ")
("                                    ")

the result of evaluating the third code block above in newlisp from the shell when i copy the string "Object.Oriented.Analysis." (without double quotes) is:

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> (set 'text (string (exec "pbpaste")))
"("Object.Oriented.Analysis.")"
> (set 'text2 (parse (replace {.} text " ") ""))
("("Object Oriented Analysis ")")
> (println text2)
("("Object Oriented Analysis ")")
("("Object Oriented Analysis ")")

^ this seems better, but textexpander produces no output.

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