Your code will almost certainly break in the 0.4 version of Julia if you do
that.
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Michael Hatherly <michaelhathe...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> You can (if you *really* have to) mutate a String by directly accessing
> it’s data field like so:
>
> julia> s = "ACTGACTG"
> julia> s.data[3] = 'A'
>
> You’ll run into problems if the characters aren’t all the same size though:
>
> julia> a = "∀ x ∈ X"
> julia> a.data
> 11-element Array{Uint8,1}:
> 0xe2
> 0x88
> 0x80
> 0x20
> 0x78
> 0x20
> 0xe2
> 0x88
> 0x88
> 0x20
> 0x58
>
> Note how the “length” of the string and the data aren’t the same. If
> you’re using this for some Bio-related stuff there’s
> https://github.com/BioJulia that might have what you need.
>
> — Mike
>
>
