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Subject: Re: [ELISP] How do you turn an array of chars into a string?
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>> A string *is* an array of chars.  
> Not in scheme or emacs lisp.  (vectorp "abc") --> nil

(arrayp "abc") => t

Hence my subsequent:

>> If you want to convert a vector
>> (i.e. one of those arrays that contains arbitrary Lisp values) to


        Stefan