[plt-scheme] possibly silly question

now why didn't I think of trying that...

thanks for clearing it

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

>
> (string-append "the quick brown fox" str "lazy" str2)
>
> (and you won't believe it, string-append works for 12,345 strings, too. I
> just tried it out:
>
>  Welcome to DrScheme, version 4.2.3.2-svn20nov2009 [3m].
>> Language: Module custom; memory limit: 256 megabytes.
>> #<world>
>> > (define s (apply string-append (build-list 12345 (lambda _ "a"))))
>>
>
> )
>
>
> On Nov 27, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Charlie Smith wrote:
>
>  string-append's fine if i want to add two stings only, but i'd like to add
>> strings inbetween other strings, for example
>>
>> (define str "jumps over the ")
>> (define str2 "dog")
>>
>> "the quick brown fox" +  str + "lazy" + str2
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Robby Findler <
>> robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> I believe string-append is exactly what the + is doing below, tho.
>> What is different?
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Charlie Smith
>> <charliesmith001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > hi
>> >
>> > i'd like to know if there is some way of adding strings (sorry, i don't
>> what
>> > the correct term for this is, maybe variable interpolation?) like for
>> > example in ruby it would be like
>> >
>> > str = "sdfdsf"
>> > puts "something" + str
>> > output: "somethingsdsdf"
>> >
>> > the function string-append isn't what I want, because i would be adding
>> > strings somewhat arbitarily in between other strings
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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