It also seems kind of reasonable to special case string() for
Array{Char,1}. It will be inconsistent with other Array stringifications,
but print/show/writemime/dump/xdump/showcompact/... can still give
emphasize the array property with an array representation.
kl. 06:12:37 UTC+2 onsdag 20. august 2014 skrev John Myles White følgende:
>
> We should really have a FAQ for this. This is something that tripped me up
> for a while.
>
> I’ll write up sometime.
>
> — John
>
> On Aug 19, 2014, at 9:11 PM, Isaiah Norton <isaiah...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> That is the splice operator (also known as "splat"). It causes the
> contents of `a` to be passed as indvidual arguments rather than passing `a`
> as an array. So, string() behaves differently.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Ning Yin <yin...@gmail.com <javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Thanks! That worked.
>>
>> I also found out that both string(a...) and CharString(a...) worked,
>> though I don't understand why the '...' is necessary here.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 9:50:33 PM UTC+8, Jacob Quinn wrote:
>>
>>> Try join()
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Ning Yin <yin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Julia users,
>>>>
>>>> I was trying to convert an array of char's to string, and I've noticed
>>>> functions such as string or CharString, but non of these seem to work for
>>>> my case:
>>>>
>>>> Julia console:
>>>> ==============
>>>> julia> a = ['a', 'b', 'c']
>>>> 3-element Array{Char,1}:
>>>> 'a'
>>>> 'b'
>>>> 'c'
>>>>
>>>> julia> string(a)
>>>> "Char[a,b,c]"
>>>>
>>>> julia> CharString(a)
>>>> ERROR: ArgumentError("UTF32String data must be NULL-terminated")
>>>> ===============
>>>>
>>>> Any idea? I'm using Julia Version 0.4.0-dev+238 (just cloned from
>>>> github).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> -Ning
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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