[GAP Forum] question about strings

[Laurent Bartholdi]

Dear Joao,
It seems to me that everything should be doable within GAP. Here's a
sample for a small file:

gap> s := InputTextFile("/home/laurent/.gaprc");
InputTextFile(/home/laurent/.gaprc)
gap> t := "";; while true do u := ReadLine(s); if IsString(u) then
Append(t,u); else break; fi; od;
gap> t;
"# .gaprc file by laurent ...\n"

You may easily modify the GAP code so that it strips the '\n' from the
string u before appending; you may consider inserting
'NormalizeWhitespace(u);' before the 'Append' command, for instance.

Best, Laurent
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