[plt-scheme] possibly silly question

string-append takes multiple arguments, eg:

  (string-append "the quick brown fix" str "lazy" str2)

Robby

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Charlie Smith
<charliesmith001 at gmail.com> 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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