From: "Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Creating string from list of strings
Date: 14 Oct 2002 03:00:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ln0phcxo8.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 80of9xtu2k.fsf@gbr.newt.com
>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:
> (message (perform-magic-with list-of-strings))
Beware! `message' is like `printf' in C: it expects a format argument.
So you'd better use (message "%s" (perform-magic-with list-of-strings))
> While the following works, it seems that there should be a one-liner
> to do this already:
> (defvar my-string)
> (while list-of-strings
> (setq my-string (concat my-string (car list-of-strings)))
> (setq list-of-strings (cdr list-of-strings)))
> (message (my-string))
Try `mapconcat'.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-14 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-14 6:26 Creating string from list of strings Bill Wohler
2002-10-14 7:00 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> [this message]
2002-10-14 7:05 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-10-14 14:00 ` Joe Casadonte
2002-10-14 15:15 ` Tom Capey
2002-10-14 15:35 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-10-14 17:09 ` Joe Casadonte
2002-10-14 21:00 ` Bill Wohler
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