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[Kent Boortz]

fjburgos@REDACTED (Fco Javier Burgos Maciá) writes:
> Is made in erlang any function to convert a term to a string representation?
> 
> The term can be a tuple, a tuple of lists, a list of tuples of strings or atoms ...
> 
> I have tried to make it using the module io_lib, but I have problems like this:
> 
> 1> String=io_lib:fwrite("~p",[{atom1,[{1,2,[atom_2,"string"]}]}]).
> [[123,
>   ["atom1",
>    44,
>    [91,[[123,["1",44,"2",44,[91,["atom_2",44,"\"string\""],93]],125]],93]],
>   125]]
> 2> String.
> [[123,
>   ["atom1",
>    44,
>    [91,[[123,["1",44,"2",44,[91,["atom_2",44,"\"string\""],93]],125]],93]],
>   125]]
> 
> In this case, I want to obtain "{atom1,[{1,2,[atom_2,"string"]}]}"

The resulting string above is a "deep list", see the beginning and the
first example at

  http://www.erlang.org/doc/r8b/lib/stdlib-1.10.1.1/doc/html/io_lib.html

Use something like

  1> DeepString = io_lib:fwrite("~p",[{atom1,[{1,2,[atom_2,"string"]}]}]).
  2> String = lists:flatten(DeepString).

or directly like

  1> String = lists:flatten(io_lib:fwrite("~p",[{atom1,[{1,2,[atom_2,"string"]}]}])).

kent