# Accumulating strings dynamically

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [December 3, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/accumulating-strings-dynamically/51209 "2020-12-03T16:42:04Z")\
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No, write to a buffer: create `buf = IOBuffer()`, accumulate characters as `print(buf, c)`, and then do `String(take!(buf))` at the end.

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