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Re: Distinction between string and sequence

• Posted by Vincent <darkvincentdude at yahoo.com> Dec 22, 2004
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Greg Haberek wrote:
> 
> > seq={{52,49,53},"415"}
> 
> >     "415"    <-- I'd like hier to see: {52,49,53}
> >     "415"
> 
> Unfortunately, {52,49,53} and "415" are the same internally (to the
> interpreter). You have to determine when a sequence is a string and
> when it is plain data. You'd have to do something like this:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> sequence a
> 
> a = {52,49,53}
> 
> print(1, a)              -- outputs {52,49,53}
> printf(1, "%s", {a})  -- outputs "415"
> 
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> 

This should do it also...

--    Disiguish a string from a sequence

include get.e
include misc.e
constant COUT = 1

integer halt
sequence elem elem = {{52,49,53},"415"}
sequence val val = value(elem[1])
sequence str str = {val[2], elem[2]}

print(COUT, reverse(str))
halt = wait_key()

Vincent