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Re: [ELISP] How do you turn an array of chars into a string?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: [ELISP] How do you turn an array of chars into a string?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:22:20 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> The elisp manual has this example, using "kbd" to convert a (relatively)
> readable string into the "internal Emacs key representation":

>      (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-\\") 'next-line)
>      (global-set-key [?\C-x ?\C-\\] 'next-line)

> What's the inverse of kbd?

key-description

> What if you want to convert an array-of-chars into a string?

A string *is* an array of chars.  If you want to convert a vector
(i.e. one of those arrays that contains arbitrary Lisp values) to
a string, you can use `concat': (concat (vector ?a ?b ?c)) => "abc".


        Stefan


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