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Re: Converting a list of strings to a single

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  • Subject: [mg122823] Re: [mg122780] Converting a list of strings to a single
  • From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr357 at gmail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:56:53 -0500 (EST)
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B = "1 2 3";

mylist = StringSplit[B];

StringJoin @@ Riffle[mylist, " "] == B

True


Bob Hanlon

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Andrew DeYoung <adeyoung at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know that the command StringSplit can be used to convert a single
> space-delimited string to a list of strings.  For example,
>
> B = "1 2 3";
> mylist = StringSplit[B]
>
> gives a list mylist such that mylist = {"1", "2", "3"}.
>
> But what if I would like to go in the reveres direction -- convert
> {"1", "2", "3"} to "1 2 3"?  Is there a good way to do this, other
> than using a For loop and concatenating the elements of the list
> together?
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Andrew DeYoung
> Carnegie Mellon University
>



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