[Jscheme-user] Re: elegant scheme for list to string?

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

Using {} flattens any lists and string appends the results.  So, when you really want the lisp value as a string, use .toString or something.


> (define data '((tokenizer.scm 1.49) (match.scm 1.47)))
((tokenizer.scm 1.49) (match.scm 1.47))
> {[data]}
"tokenizer.scm1.49match.scm1.47"
> (.toString data)
"((tokenizer.scm 1.49) (match.scm 1.47))"
> 

At 06:34 PM 10/21/2002, you wrote:

>Ken -
>
>What's the simplest way in Scheme to go from a list like 
>
>'((tokenizer.scm 1.49) (match.scm 1.47))
>
>to a string like
>
>"((tokenizer.scm 1.49) (match.scm 1.47))"
>
>I thought I might be able to use the {} but it strips parens and
>spaces:
>
>> cvsTokenizerTags
>((tokenizer.scm 1.49) (match.scm 1.47))
>> {[cvsTokenizerTags]}
>"tokenizer.scm1.49match.scm1.47"
>
>Do you know of an elegant way for me to get a string representation of
>the list?
>
>Thanks,
>Renu
>
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