"+" operator on characters revisited
Consider the following from Python 2.6.5:
>>> 'abc'+ 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
'abc'+ 2
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects
>>> 'abc'+'2'
'abc2'
>>>
Spencer
On 1/23/2011 8:09 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
Yet another useful suggestion of introducing cat0() and paste0(), for the common use of cat and paste with sep="" was not absorbed by the core R either.
stringr has str_c which is a replacement for paste with sep = "" and automatic removal of length 0 inputs. Hadley
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