[Bug-apl] A better way to insert characters into a character vector?
From:
alexweiner
Subject:
[Bug-apl] A better way to insert characters into a character vector?
Date:
Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:17:42 -0700
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Hi Bug APL,
I find that I frequently will do this:
a←'alex'
a[3]←⊂'www'
Which results in this:
a
┌→─────────┐
│al ┌→──┐ x│
│ │www│ │
│ └───┘ │
└∊─────────┘
And then I will do this, because I want a character vector:
a←⊃,/a
a
alwwwx
So I guess more simply put. Is there a way to get from "alex" to "alwwwx" without the intermediary nested thing? Am I approaching this problem with the wrong functions?