Re: difficulty extracting email address from property field containing gmail link

[John Kitchin]

I think code like this would also work:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(let* ((url "https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&fs=1&to=duncanxyz@indeedemail.com")
       (struct (url-generic-parse-url url))
       (filename (url-filename struct)))

  (cadr (assoc "to" (url-parse-query-string filename))))
#+END_SRC

John

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 7:51 AM Ian Garmaise <ian.g@phorixsol.com> wrote:

Thanks Kyle, got it to work this way:

#+BEGIN: propview :cols ((car (s-split " " ITEM))  (s-chop-prefix "gmail:" (my/extract-email-from-link EMAIL_ADDRESS)))  :id "candidates" :match "testthis" :wrap example
| (car (s-split " " ITEM)) | (s-chop-prefix "gmail:" (my/extract-email-from-link EMAIL_ADDRESS)) |
|--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------|
| "Ciara"                  | "ciaraxxxx@gmail.com"                                              |
| "Duncan"                 | "duncanxxxx@indeedemail.com"                                  |

Thanks a million!

Ian

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 10:39 PM Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:

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"                  | "ciaraxyz@gmail.com"                       |
| "Duncan"                 | "duncanxyz@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:
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