When writing a worksheet for students, I always include the answers, as follows:
Figure 1 shows the contents of a memory location #+CAPTION: Figure 1 |10100111| What is the denary equivalent of the contents of this memory location if it represents an unsigned binary integer? (1 mark) ANS: 167 What is the denary equivalent of the contents of this memory location if it represents an unsigned binary fixed point number, with 4 bits before and 4 bits after the binary point? (2 marks) ANS: 10.4375 What is the denary equivalent of the contents of this memory location if it represents a two's complement binary integer? (2 marks) ANS: -89 What is the hexadecimalequivalent of the binary pattern shown in Figure 1? (1 mark) ANS: A7
When I’ve finished I save a copy of the sheet and then remove the answers, leaving me with a worksheet and the answer sheet. Emacs makes it easy to remove the answers using
M-x flush-lines ^ANS:
As it says in the documentation, flush-lines deletes lines containing matches for REGEXP.
Use flush-lines to delete blank lines as follows:
M-x flush-lines ^$
flush-lines is part of replace.el. There are some nice functions in replace.el As it says in the introductory comments:
This package supplies the string and regular-expression replace functions documented in the Emacs user’s manual.
M-x keep-lines is the inverse of flush-lines, handy if you want a sheet with the answers only
M-x how-many returns the number of occurrences of REGEXP following the point. Handy for counting how many ANS: there are.
M-x occur opens a buffer showing all lines in the current buffer containing a match for REGEXP. See this post on stylesheets for more on this.
Lastly, map-query-replace-regexp will replace a matches for a regexp in rotation. As a simple example, suppose you want assign a group to a collection of students:
gp: Adam gp: Bella gp: Carol gp: Danuta gp: Ed gp: Fran
Select the names and
map-query-replace-regexp ^gp: red: blue: green:
gives
red: Adam blue: Bella green: Carol red: Danuta blue: Ed green: Fran
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