Re: [Chicken-users] Appending a newline to a string

[John Cowan]

2010/10/21 Joe Python <address@hidden>:
> How to append a newline to a string?
> I wish to do that in memory before I start writing to a file.
> The string function seems to stringify the newline control character as
> follows.
>
> ------------< snip >---------------------------
>
> (apply string '(#\a #\b #\newline)) => "ab\n"
>
> ------------< snip >------------------------------

Your code is perfectly correct; it's just that you want to use
`display` rather than `write` to write out the string, so that you get
its characters rather than a Scheme-level representation of the string
object itself.