Aptech » Answers for "How can I convert a string to a character vector?" http://www.aptech.com Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:12:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: aptech http://www.aptech.com/questions/how-can-i-convert-a-string-to-a-character-vector/#answer-2974 http://www.aptech.com/questions/how-can-i-convert-a-string-to-a-character-vector/#answer-2974#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:37:15 +0000 aptech http://www.aptech.com/questions/how-can-i-convert-a-string-to-a-character-vector/#answer-2974 Continue reading →]]> The type of the output follows the first element when using the string addition operator ($+) in GAUSS. Therefore you can use this operator to convert a string to a character vector like this:

myString = "GDP";
myCharVec = 0$+myString;

Now myCharVec will be a character vector which you can print using the ($) operator like so:

print $myCharVec;

which will return:

   GDP
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