Formatting Array to String challenge

[paul_a_cardinale]

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.  Eventually I came up with this (but it took lots of tries):

OK, why the 7F: I really want an empty string as the delimiter; but if you feed it an empty string, it uses a space instead.  However if you feed it a 7F, it uses an empty string (gee, how obvious! 🙄).

[paul_a_cardinale]

Right after I posted that, I got another idea:

[altenbach]

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@paul_a_cardinale wrote:

OK, why the 7F: I really want an empty string as the delimiter; but if you feed it an empty string, it uses a space instead.  However if you feed it a 7F, it uses an empty string (gee, how obvious! 🙄).

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Interesting. Does that solve this old idea ???

(Sorry, I just got power back after a 25 hour outage (very high wind and devastating wildfires nearby, you've see the news 😞 ). Was hanging off laptop and cellphone hotspot, running almost out of juice).

[tst]

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@paul_a_cardinale wrote:

Right after I posted that, I got another idea:

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Do these last two options have any advantage or are those just the RG solutions? It sounded like you're being serious about these and I don't see why not to use the initial solutions posted to the thread, which are certainly more readable and easy to understand.

[daveTW]

Yeah Christian,

how arer things going on in Venice Beach? Are you far enough away from the fire areas? I keep my fingers crossed that everything goes well for you.

We have around 0°C and snow-rainy wheather in Berlin, so it's quite the opposite of your situation.

[Yamaeda]

I'm a simple man. 🙂

[paul_a_cardinale]

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@paul_a_cardinale wrote:

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.  Eventually I came up with this (but it took lots of tries):

OK, why the 7F: I really want an empty string as the delimiter; but if you feed it an empty string, it uses a space instead.  However if you feed it a 7F, it uses an empty string (gee, how obvious! 🙄).

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Corrections:

1. If you feed it an empty string, it uses a tab.  Apparently it's checking for a null string to decide whether something has been wired.
2. If you feed it a 7F, it uses the 7F; it's just that the string indicator doesn't display the 7F's.

[paul_a_cardinale]

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@tst wrote:

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@paul_a_cardinale wrote:

Right after I posted that, I got another idea:

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Do these last two options have any advantage or are those just the RG solutions? It sounded like you're being serious about these and I don't see why not to use the initial solutions posted to the thread, which are certainly more readable and easy to understand.

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I don't know what "RG solution" means.

[altenbach]

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@paul_a_cardinale wrote:
I don't know what "RG solution" means.

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Short for this... 😄

[paul_a_cardinale]

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@altenbach wrote:

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@billko wrote:

I'd actually rather see how Rube-ish we can get it.  😉

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challenge accepted....

 

 

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Well, I suppose that's a nice try; but it doesn't hold a candle to some of the psychotic code that I've seen over the decades.