nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (05/13/91)
%% string1 string2 append string
% appends two strings
/append {
2 copy length exch length add % find the length of the new.
string dup
% string1 string2 string string
4 2 roll
% string string string1 string2
2 index 0 3 index
% string string string1 string2 string 0 string1
putinterval % stuff the first string in.
% string string string1 string2
exch length exch putinterval
} bind def
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this magnitude in a serious discussion is criminal. -- Irv Chidseymikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) (05/13/91)
This is really odd...I'm scanning through the Red Book, and I still cannot figure it out. I have two strings, say firstname and lastname. I want to make them into one, say fullname. I can't figure out how to do this! It's driving me nuts! HELP! MikeC -- --------------------------------------------------------- Michael D. Callaghan, MDC Designs, University of Maryland --------------------------------------------------------- - Celibacy is a curable condition -
toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) (05/14/91)
In article <1991May12.223939.14987@wam.umd.edu> mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) writes: >I have two strings, say firstname and lastname. >I want to make them into one, say fullname. Look on page 106: String operators. You should be able to construct what you want (some what awkwardly) using the copy and length functions. (Or get/put or getinterval/putinterval.) Maybe someone else has already devised a simple 'concat' function? Tom Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Mathematical Biology Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 toms@ncifcrf.gov
glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) (05/15/91)
Tom Schneider writes > In article <1991May12.223939.14987@wam.umd.edu> mikec@wam.umd.edu > (Michael D. Callaghan) writes: > > Maybe someone else has already devised a simple > 'concat' function? If you do (and lots of us have), please don't name it `concat', even though that would be a nice name for it. There's already a PostScript operator named `concat', and other programs that don't use bind (smiley for those following the bind thread:-) might invoke your procedure by mistake. -- Glenn Reid RightBrain Software glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us NeXT/PostScript developers ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)