How to concatenate a string in a do block?

1.4k Views Asked by MikeC At 20 October 2024 at 00:35

I'm trying to go though a array and add characters from that array to another object. The problem is I keep getting a error "Instances of character are not indexable". However when I run tag := tag,char outside of the do block then it works.

|data startTag tag|.
data := '123456778'
startTag := false.
tag := ''.
data asArray do: [:char |
     tag := tag,char]

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Stephan Eggermont On 25 February 2016 at 20:08 BEST ANSWER

The , is defined as

Collection>>, aCollection
^self copy addAll: aCollection; yourself

so that tries to operate on your single character as if it were a collection. That explains the error.

For larger collections you do not want to build up using , because of the copy that happens each time. Therefore use the streaming protocol:

|data tag|
data := '123456778'.
tag := String streamContents: [:s |
    data do: [ :char |
    s nextPut: char]]

Also take a look at Collection>>do:separatedBy: to add separators between your data.

[edit] Ah, ok, that's something like

|data tag tags state|
data := '<html>bla 12 <h1/></html>'.
state := #outside.
tags := OrderedCollection new.
tag := ''.
data do: [ :char |
    state = #outside ifTrue: [
        char = $< ifTrue: [ 
            state := #inside.
            tag := '' ]]
    ifFalse:  [ 
         char = $> ifTrue: [ 
            state := #outside.
            tags add: tag] 
        ifFalse: [ tag := tag, (char asString)]]].
tags

"an OrderedCollection('html' 'h1/' '/html')"

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