[Newbies] Concatenating strings stored in an ordered collection

[Rob Rothwell]

Try output := col inject: '' into: [:a :b | a,b].

And check out the terse guide to Squeak:

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5699.

I can never remember the format for inject, but got it right somehow this
time!

Rob

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've created an ordered collection of strings.  I'd like to paste each
> element of the ordered collection together into one long string that
> contains all of the elements of the ordered collection.
>
> So given this:
> | col |
> col := OrderedCollection with: 'asdf' with: '1234' with: 'aaaa'.
>
>
> I'd like to end up with this:
>
> 'asdf1234aaaa'
>
> I've come up with this:
> | col |
> col := OrderedCollection with: 'asdf' with: '1234' with: 'aaaa'.
> String streamContents: [:stream | col do: [:i | stream print: i]]
>
> but that gives:
> '''asdf''''1234''''aaaa'''
>
> What else should I do?  Thanks
>
> Paul
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