Working in AutoLISP. I am looking for a more elegant way to extract the second string in this list of lists...
(("FullName") ("Larry Paige"))
Currently using the following to extract desired data.
(setq _BAMOFO(nth 0 (nth 1 Result)))
Thank you.
Working in AutoLISP. I am looking for a more elegant way to extract the second string in this list of lists...
(("FullName") ("Larry Paige"))
Currently using the following to extract desired data.
(setq _BAMOFO(nth 0 (nth 1 Result)))
Thank you.
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Reset to default 0Fully low-level way:
(car (car (cdr Result)))
Mixed way that is likely more readable, as it is closer to human intuition of what we want to get:
(car (nth 1 Result))
The most readable approach to me would be to be able to write:
(setq _BAMOFO (fullname result))
And you need to define a fullname accessor function.
Then you do not really care about how it is implemented; nth is quite readable in my opinion.
(defun fullname (list)
(nth 0 (nth 1 list)))
Or maybe you can find a more robust way to extract the name given the shape of your data, for example finding out the list the list that contains "FullName", that's not entirely clear to me if that makes sense in your context.