Re: Converting a list of strings to a single space-delimited string
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- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:57:36 -0500 (EST)
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On 10/11/2011 12:02, Andrew DeYoung 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
>
StringJoin @@ {"1", "2", "3"}
David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk