Most efficent way of joining strings

Question

I need to concatenate a lot of strings alltogether and put a comma between any of them. I have a list of strings

\"123123123213\"
\"1232113213213\"
\"1232131         


        

Answer 1

Your second solution adds an extra , at the end. Take a look at Eric Lippert`s blog entry

I would recommend fixing your second solution. A StringBuilder would be definitely faster, as you avoid coping the list contents to a new array.

StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
string separator = "";
stringList.ForEach(
    val =>
    {
        builder.Append(separator).Append(val);
        separator = ",";
    });
string outcome = builder.ToString();