[GAP Forum] Putting variables in strings

[Alexander Konovalov]

Hello Frederic,

Try this:

PrintTo( Concatenation( "outputfile", String(i), ".txt" ), i^3);

Hope this helps!
Alexander


On 16 Nov 2012, at 12:01, Frederic Vanhove wrote:

> Hello
> 
> this is probably a very basic thing but I struggled to find the proper commands.
> I would like to have GAP write output to several files, the names of which are automatically generated.
> 
> So I would like to have something like this:
> 
> for i in [1..10] do
> PrintTo("outputfile"+i+".txt", i^3);
> od;
> 
> Essentiallly, I just have to find the right way to get the proper string.
> How can I do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Frédéric
> 
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