[Newbies] String construction and replacement
Randal L. Schwartz
merlyn at stonehenge.com
Sun Feb 1 21:53:43 UTC 2009
>>>>> "David" == David Mitchell <david.mitchell at gmail.com> writes:
David> | characters string |
David> characters := {$H.$I.Character cr. $T.$H.$E.$R.$E}.
David> string := String streamContents: [:writeStream | characters do: [:c |
David> writeStream nextPut: c]].
chars := {$H.$I.Character cr. $T.$H.$E.$R.$E}.
string := chars as: String.
Far simpler. Look at #as:... it's a pretty good "force this into that"
call.
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