From rhoekstr@wins.uva.nl Thu May 11 09:40:25 2000 Received: from smtp1.a2000.nl ([62.108.1.203]) by swi.psy.uva.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00904 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 09:40:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from node10e0e.a2000.nl ([24.132.14.14] helo=rhino) by smtp1.a2000.nl with smtp (Exim 2.02 #4) id 12pna9-0002fg-00; Thu, 11 May 2000 09:40:29 +0200 From: "Rinke Hoekstra" To: "Paul Sephton" Cc: "Prolog Mailing List" Subject: RE: String Representation Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:45:07 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Doesn't something like: :- style_check(+string). change the treatment of "abcd" from a list of charactercodes to a (real) string? Or did it change 'abcd' into a string? It was a long time ago, but I remember having a similar problem when trying to open a connection to a database from prolog. Regards, R. Hoekstra > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Sephton [mailto:paul@inet.co.za] > Sent: donderdag 11 mei 2000 10:24 > To: dick@csci.csusb.edu > Cc: prolog@swi.psy.uva.nl > Subject: Re: String Representation > > > On Wed, 10 May 2000 dick@csci.csusb.edu wrote: > > > I thought > > 'bblahblah blah' > > did that! > > > > Nah! That gets it into an atom. define x('abc') and abc gets stored in > an atom. define x("abc") and it goes into a list of character codes. I > need both of these, but also need "abc" as a string under certain > conditions. with x("abc") and later x(S),string(X) fails. > > Paul > __________________________________________________________________ > ___________ > Paul Sephton (paul@inet.co.za) INET > Development > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~ > Ever wondered if jumping out of the frying pan might actually be > refreshing? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > ---------------- > * To UNSUBSCRIBE, please use the HTML form at > > http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/index.html#mailinglist > > or send mail to prolog-request@swi.psy.uva.nl using the Subject: > "unsubscribe" > (without the quotes) and *no* message body. > > ** An ARCHIVE of this list is maintained at > > http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/mailinglist/archive/ > >