Re: [ELISP] How do you turn an array of chars into a string?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> The elisp manual has this example, using "kbd" to convert a (relatively)
>> readable string into the "internal Emacs key representation":
>
>>      (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-\\") 'next-line)
>>      (global-set-key [?\C-x ?\C-\\] 'next-line)
>
>> What's the inverse of kbd?
>
> key-description
>
>> What if you want to convert an array-of-chars into a string?
>
> A string *is* an array of chars.  

Not in scheme or emacs lisp.  (vectorp "abc") --> nil


> If you want to convert a vector
> (i.e. one of those arrays that contains arbitrary Lisp values) to
> a string, you can use `concat': (concat (vector ?a ?b ?c)) => "abc".
>
>
>         Stefan

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