Question

I’m trying to reduce a vec like [\space \space \space \a \space] to

"   a "

However, I’m getting:

Clojure> (apply str [\space \space \space \a])
         " a "

It seems str is stripping multiple \space chars. Is there a way to get around this?

(By the way, I’m just using Try Clojure to try and work through 4clojure)

Answer 1

I think its tryclj issue, not clojure.
Just tested on clojure 1.2

(apply str [\space \space \space \a]) => "   a"

UPD:
I’m almost sure that is tryclj markup issue. Just tested on tryclj

(= (apply str [\space \space \a]) " a") => false
(= (apply str [\space \space \a]) "  a") => true