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Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> wrote:

>   I wasn't able to figure out from the Elisp manual how to turn a list
>   of strings into a single string. For example, how does one
>   print the following list of strings?
>
>     (setq list-of-strings '("foo" "bar"))
>     (message (perform-magic-with list-of-strings))

How about (message (apply 'concat list-of-strings)) ?

-- 
John Paul Wallington