1. Characters in sequences
- Posted by dstanger at belco.bc.ca
May 12, 2001
Hello all,
This is a ridiculously easy question I am sure, but, how does one put text
inside a sequence. Here is what I am trying:
sequence word
word = {"Hello there"}
puts(1,word)
When I try to run this I am told "Sequence found inside a character string".
What am I doing wrong?
Also, has anyone else been able to run the tutorial file GETC.ex? When I try
to run it it cannot find the file that it wants even though it is in the
same directory and everything.
Thanks.
David
2. Re: Characters in sequences
dstanger at belco.bc.ca wrote:
> ...
> This is a ridiculously easy question I am sure, but, how does one
> put text inside a sequence. Here is what I am trying:
>
> sequence word
> word = {"Hello there"}
>
> puts(1,word)
>
> When I try to run this I am told "Sequence found inside a
> character string".
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
Hi David,
it's less complicated: if you write instead:
sequence word
word = "Hello there" -- not included in {}
than it should work.
For you wrote instead a string inside a sequence, it should also work
with:
puts(1,word[1]) -- which is the first element of the sequence,
-- which is the string.
> Also, has anyone else been able to run the tutorial file GETC.ex? When I try
> to run it it cannot find the file that it wants even though it is in the
> same directory and everything.
This works on my machine. Did you follow the instructions written inside
getc.ex?
Have a nice day, Rolf
