You could use a = Any[] while ... push!(a, somestring) end join(a)
Am 17.02.2015 um 15:28 schrieb Maurice Diamantini <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > In Ruby, String is mutable and there is the << operator to accumulate > a string at the end of another one. > > I Julia, String is immutable and so, I use the contatenation operator > when I need to build a large string: > > txt = "" > while ... > txt *= "yet another line.\n" > end > # do something with txt > > This is very slow because it build a new (more and more large) string at each > iteration. > Is there another way in Julia to efficiently build such a string? > Or is there another type one can use for that task (Buffer, Array, ....)? > > Thanks in advance, > -- Maurice
