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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

  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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