Convert String[] to comma separated string in java

Question

i have one String[]

String[] name = {\"amit\", \"rahul\", \"surya\"};

i want to send name as parameter in sql query inside IN

Answer 1

Android developers are probably looking for TextUtils.join

Android docs: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/TextUtils.html

Code:

String[] name = {"amit", "rahul", "surya"};
TextUtils.join(",",name)

Answer 2

You may also want not to spawn StringBuilder for such simple operation. Please note that I've changed name of your array from name to names for sake of content conformity:

String[] names = {"amit", "rahul", "surya"};

String namesString = "";
int delimeters = (names.size() - 1);
for (String name : names)
    namesString += (delimeters-- > 0) ? "'" + name + "'," : "'" + name + "'";

Answer 3

This would be an optimized way of doing it

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (String n : arr) { 
    sb.append("'").append(n).append("',");
}
if(sb.length()>0)
    sb.setLength(sbDiscrep.length()-1);
return sb.toString();

Answer 4

Either write a simple method yourself, or use one of the various utilities out there.

Personally I use apache StringUtils (StringUtils.join)

edit: in Java 8, you don't need this at all anymore:

String joined = String.join(",", name);

Answer 5

Extention for prior Java 8 solution

String result = String.join(",", name);

If you need prefix or/ and suffix for array values

 StringJoiner joiner = new StringJoiner(",");
 for (CharSequence cs: name) {
     joiner.add("'" + cs + "'");
 }
 return joiner.toString();

Or simple method concept

  public static String genInValues(String delimiter, String prefix, String suffix, String[] name) {
    StringJoiner joiner = new StringJoiner(delimiter);
    for (CharSequence cs: name) {
      joiner.add(prefix + cs + suffix);
    }
    return joiner.toString();
  }

For example

For Oracle i need "id in (1,2,3,4,5)" 
then use genInValues(",", "", "", name);

But for Postgres i need "id in (values (1),(2),(3),(4),(5))"
then use genInValues(",", "(", ")", name);

Answer 6

As tempting and "cool" as the code may appear, do not use fold or reduce on large collections of strings, as these will suffer from the string concatenation problem

String[] strings = { "foo", "bar", "baz" };
Optional<String> result = Arrays.stream(strings)
        .reduce((a, b) -> String.format("%s,%s", a, b));
System.out.println(result.get());

Instead, as per other answers, use String.join() if you already have a collection, or a StringBuilder if not.