On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:32:46AM -0500, Markus Pueschel wrote:
> Andrew Solomon wrote:
> > 
> > Dear Markus,
> > 
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:17:22PM -0500, Markus Pueschel wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have the following problem (GAP3). When printing a
> > > long string to a file using the function PrintTo, the
> > > string is broken at a certain length and a "\" is inserted.
> > > It looks like: (this was a single string)
> > >
> > > 246810121416182022242628303234363840424446485052545658606264666870727476788082\
> > > 848688909294969810010210410610811011211411611812012212412612813013213413613814\
> > > 014214414614815015215415615816016216416616817017217417617818018218418618819019\
> > > 2194196198200
> > >
> > > How can I avoid the line-breaking or at least the insertion of
> > > backslashes?
> > >
> > > Thanks, Markus
> > >
> > 
> > PrintTo(<stream>,<object>) and AppendTo  behave like Print and therefore break the lines
> > as though writing to screen (see Section 10.4 of the manual). In preference one uses
> > WriteAll(<stream>, <string>) which simply writes the string to the
> > stream byte-by-byte.
> > 
> > I believe the following does what you want.
> > 
> > gap> n; # n is an integer
> > 246810121416182022242628303234363840424446485052545658606264666870727476788082848\
> > 688909294969810010210410610811011211411611812012212412612813013213413613814014214\
> > 414614815015215415615816016216416616817017217417617818018218418618819019219419619\
> > 8200
> > gap> s := String(n); # convert the integer to a string
> > "24681012141618202224262830323436384042444648505254565860626466687072747678808284\
> > 868890929496981001021041061081101121141161181201221241261281301321341361381401421\
> > 441461481501521541561581601621641661681701721741761781801821841861881901921941961\
> > 98200"
> > 
> > gap> filename := Filename(DirectoryCurrent(), "strtst");
> > "./strtst"
> > 
> > gap> output := OutputTextFile( filename, false );
> > OutputTextFile(./strtst)
> > 
> > gap> WriteAll(output,s);
> > true
> > gap> CloseStream(output);
> > 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> I don't seem to have the command
>   WriteAll(..)
> Is this maybe a GAP4 command? I am using GAP3.

Apologies: I didn't read the message carefully enough. This solution
is for GAP 4.

Andrew

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