Topic: Convert a List to a String ...

[Lee Mac]

'del' is an argument for the function.

del = delimiter, as in my explanation 

[alanjt]

'del' is an argument for the function.

del = delimiter, as in my explanation 

My mind was clearly somewhere else. I called it deliminator in my explanation. :ugly:

[Lee Mac]

'del' is an argument for the function.

del = delimiter, as in my explanation 

My mind was clearly somewhere else. I called it deliminator in my explanation. :ugly:

That does sound cooler 

[Hangman]

'del' is an argument for the function.

del = delimiter, as in my explanation 

My mind was clearly somewhere else. I called it deliminator in my explanation. :ugly:

That's what I interpreted,  'del' for delete or deliminator.   

[alanjt]

'del' is an argument for the function.

del = delimiter, as in my explanation 

My mind was clearly somewhere else. I called it deliminator in my explanation. :ugly:

That does sound cooler 

It travels back in time and delimits all John and Sarah Connor's text.

[Keith™]

Just something I was considering ... several options are available, but they don't give you the option to add a delimiter, unless of course you use lambda or some other equally useful function ... i.e.

Code: [Select]

(defun list->string (mylist)
  (apply 'strcat mylist)
)

(defun list->string (mylist delim)
  (setq str (car mylist))
  (vl-every '(lambda (x) (setq str (strcat str delim x))) (cdr mylist))
  str
) 

The second bit of code, while not nearly as concise, allows the addition of delimiters.

To further expand the code, one might do a check for numerical values and convert them explicitly to strings ... that will likely require a bit of code to check for various situations, but as long as the type is going to be string, it may not be required.