Re: Combining elements of a list
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- Subject: [mg108876] Re: Combining elements of a list
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 08:01:42 -0400 (EDT)
Riffle: that's a function new in Mathematica 6 that I missed completely.
Neat!
On 4/4/2010 7:43 AM, Albert Retey wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> How could I go from:
>> {h,e,l,l,o}
>> to
>> {hello}?
>>
>> That is the first step of what I am really looking to do. Which is
>> to go from:
>> {{t,h,i,s},{i,s},{a},{t,e,s,t},{m,e,s,s,a,g,e}}
>> to
>> "this is a test message"
>>
> If you want to join strings, use StringJoin :-)
>
> this works if the entries are symbols:
>
> letters={{t, h, i, s}, {i, s}, {a}, {t, e, s, t}, {m, e, s, s, a,
> g, e}}
>
> StringJoin[Riffle[Map[ToString,letters,{2}], " "]]
>
> if the entries are strings already, this would be enough:
>
> letters = {{"t", "h", "i", "s"}, {"i", "s"}, {"a"}, {"t", "e", "s",
> "t"}, {"m", "e", "s", "s", "a", "g", "e"}}
>
> StringJoin[Riffle[letters, " "]]
>
> hth,
>
> albert
>
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