Re: Converting a list of strings to a single space-delimited string
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- Subject: [mg122829] Re: Converting a list of strings to a single space-delimited string
- From: "Dr. Wolfgang Hintze" <weh at snafu.de>
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:57:58 -0500 (EST)
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"Andrew DeYoung" <adeyoung at andrew.cmu.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:j9geh9$ovb$1 at smc.vnet.net... > 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 > It can be easily done: (* define data *) lst = {"1", "2", "3"} {"1", "2", "3"} (* perform operation *) StringJoin @@ lst "123" (* check type of result *) Head[%] String Regards, Wolfgang