moin Konstantinos,

afaik, builtin support only includes PDL::Char, which is restricted
fixed-length strings encoded as byte-values (e.g. ASCII).  There's
also Zakariyya
Mughal's Data::Frame which seems capable of handling variable-length
strings, but I'm unclear on the details; perhaps he can chime in.  Whenever
I need to do something like this (very often, since I work with text data),
I usually end up building an extra hash+array pair for mapping back and
forth between strings and integer-IDs, and let PDL work with just the IDs.
Not pretty, but it works.

marmosets,
  Bryan

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Konstantinos Billis <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi people,
>
>
> Just a quick question. I am using PDL to build arrays, for example "
> zeroes" function.  If I understand correctly, those elements of the
> arrays should contain only numbers (or bad, inf etc). Could I use any other
> function for creating strings/words of lists/arrays instead of numbers? In
> other words, for example, to initialize an array with NULLs and then add
> strings or words in particular positions of the array.
>
>
> Many Thanks,
> Kostas
>
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