Get org-mode link label from internal link?

Question

Q: how do I extract an org-mode link label?

Given an org-mode internal link with the following format:

[[link-target][link-label]]

How do I extract link-label?

I need to process the link as a string, not interactively in an org-mode buffer. I could write a regexp to do this, but am wondering if there's a function already built in.

Answer 1

You want something like this. The regexp you want is already defined in the variable org-bracket-link-regexp.

(let ((s "[[link-target][link-label]]"))
  (string-match org-bracket-link-regexp s)
  (list
   (match-string 1 s)
   (match-string 3 s)))

This should return a list of ("link-target" "link-label")

Answer 2

org-copy-visible, bound to C-c C-x v, should do the job for you.