[julia-users] Most effective way to build a large string?

[Maurice Diamantini]

Hi,

In Ruby, String is mutable which allows to build large strings like this:
    txt = ""
    for ...
        txt << "yet another line\n"
    end
    # do something with txt

The Julia the (bad) way I use is to do:
    txt = ""
    for ...
        txt *=  "yet another line\n"
    end
    # do something with txt

Which is very slow for a big string (because it build a new more and more 
string at each iteration).

So is there another way to do it (in standard Julia)?
Or is there another type which could be used (something like a Buffer type 
or Array type)?

Thank,
-- Maurice