Hi Ivar and Keno,
Thank you. that worked. I'm sorry to bother you on something that
has been documented but i just went with what i used to. May I know the
reason behind using '*' for concatenation instead of '+' which is the norm?
Thank you,
Regards,
Sharmila
On Sunday, January 19, 2014 1:25:54 AM UTC+5:30, Ivar Nesje wrote:
>
> As Keno says, you should use * for string concatenation in Julia, not + as
> in Python.
>
> If you really, really want, you can "fix" it by adding a new method to +,
> but that might cause other problems, and I think that would be inadvisable
> if you want do distribute a package with your code.
>
> +(a::String, b::String) = a*b
>
> Ivar
>
> kl. 20:12:56 UTC+1 lørdag 18. januar 2014 skrev Keno Fischer følgende:
>>
>> String concat uses `*` rather than `+`
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Sharmila Gopirajan Sivakumar <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> This is about some odd issues I'm experiencing with Julia. When I try
>>> to add 2 strings,
>>>
>>> url = "http://"; + domain
>>>
>>> (Here domain is a variable whose value is read from the csv file using
>>> readtable.)
>>>
>>> I get the error "ERROR: no method +(ASCIIString, UTF8String)". But in
>>> julia's Base/strings.jl, there are promote rules to promote asciistring to
>>> utf8string. So why do we get this error? how do I fix it? I would be
>>> quite willing to fix it in Julia.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Sharmila
>>>
>>
>>
