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How do I e-lisp this?

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From: Ward... James Ward
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:45
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I've never written in e-lisp, but I have a problem I need to solve in
it.  I figure it is probably easy, but would like some suggestions.
Is this the right place to ask this question?

Here's the problem:

While interacting with a program using emacs' tinymud.el, I'd like to
be able to take a message containing directions from one place to
another and convert them into movement commands and issue the to the
muse.

Input:

Caspian pages: Path from Foyer to Cyberion City University, type Out, Out, s,
Spin(to Main Transportation Spine <Section 7>), type 1 (to Main Transportation
Spine <Section 1>), s, uni (to Cyberion City University).

Output: (one word per line followed by an enter at the end of the buffer)

Out
Out
s
Spin
1
s
uni


Details: Caspian is a program, so his output is always of this form.
The directions begin with "type" or "Type", and are separated by
commas.  All text prior to the first occurence of "[Tt]ype", all
occurences of "[Tt]ype", and all text between parenthesis need to be
discarded.

So, what I'd like to be able to do is mark a region, and have some
e-lisp do the rest, including entering the movement commands for me at
the bottom of the buffer.  Any e-lisp wizards out there want to take a
stab at this one?

Thanks in advance!
--
jew@sunquest.com
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Date: 18 Nov 92 10:45:10
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