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Combining Strings

Problem

You need to combine several strings into a larger string.

Solution

The built-in concatenation operator (++) is the de-facto answer here:

1> "Some " ++ "text " ++ "and" ++ " stuff".
"Some text and stuff"

You can also use the lists:append function:

2> lists:append(["Some ", "text ", "and", " stuff"]).
"Some text and stuff"

++ and lists:append will always allocate a new string.

Discussion

-- BrentAFulgham - 21 Aug 2004

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Current Rev: r1.1 - 21 Aug 2004 - 05:05 GMT - BrentAFulgham, Revision History:Diffs | r1.1

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