I think Henrique Lopes Cardoso wrote: > > (defrule r1 > ?x <- (foo) > => > (bind ?string (implode$ ?x)) ;; IS THERE A WAY OF DOING THIS?
?x is a jess.Fact object. You can call any of the methods of jess.Fact on it -- including toString() and toStringWithParens(), one of which surely does what you want. But I think you need to step back a little and look at your design; in particular, the way in which you're structuring your data. For example, why is it important that the "foo" part of (foo a b c) be including in your string -- since, given the "foo" pattern, it's already known? Why not just ... ?x <- (foo $?data) => (bind ?string (implode $?data)) ... Now, you say that "?string" is just going to be passed to a Userfunction implemented in Java. Why not just pass "?data" to that Userfunction (or ?x, if that's what you really want?) Why this preprocessing step? Any time you feel like you're fighting Jess (or any tool) to achieve a certain effect, ask yourself if the problem isn't just that the tool is designed to make it easy to do things some other way, and consider if that other way would work for you. --------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Friedman-Hill Advanced Software Research Phone: (925) 294-2154 Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Livermore, CA 94550 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
