Hi there, I’m trying to pass a String to my function foo (s::A, n::N=2) where {A<:Union{String,Vector{String}}, N <: Number} I’m calling the function as so foo(“test”) and am receiving the error MethodError: Cannot convert an object of type Char to an object of type String I’m a little lost on h…

If you are getting Char, I suspect you are iterating through a String. perhaps you want expand_urls(["http://www.google.com"]) to iterate through an array

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lmiq April 29, 2021, 12:18pm 10

I think the easiest way to avoid that kind of problem is to go to the directory of the package and start Julia with

julia --project

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