A quick and easy way to join array elements with a separator (the opposite of split) in Java [duplicate]

Answer 1

Even easier you can just use Arrays, so you will get a String with the values of the array separated by a ","

String concat = Arrays.toString(myArray);

so you will end up with this: concat = "[a,b,c]"

Update

You can then get rid of the brackets using a sub-string as suggested by Jeff

concat = concat.substring(1, concat.length() -1);

so you end up with concat = "a,b,c"

if you want to use Kotlin:

 val concat = myArray.joinToString(separator = ",") //"a,b,c"

Answer 2

If you're on Android you can TextUtils.join(delimiter, tokens)

Answer 3

The approach that I've taken has evolved since Java 1.0 to provide readability and maintain reasonable options for backward-compatibility with older Java versions, while also providing method signatures that are drop-in replacements for those from apache commons-lang. For performance reasons, I can see some possible objections to the use of Arrays.asList but I prefer helper methods that have sensible defaults without duplicating the one method that performs the actual work. This approach provides appropriate entry points to a reliable method that does not require array/list conversions prior to calling.

Possible variations for Java version compatibility include substituting StringBuffer (Java 1.0) for StringBuilder (Java 1.5), switching out the Java 1.5 iterator and removing the generic wildcard (Java 1.5) from the Collection (Java 1.2). If you want to take backward compatibility a step or two further, delete the methods that use Collection and move the logic into the array-based method.

public static String join(String[] values)
{
    return join(values, ',');
}

public static String join(String[] values, char delimiter)
{
    return join(Arrays.asList(values), String.valueOf(delimiter));
}

// To match Apache commons-lang: StringUtils.join(values, delimiter)
public static String join(String[] values, String delimiter)
{
    return join(Arrays.asList(values), delimiter);
}

public static String join(Collection<?> values)
{
    return join(values, ',');
}

public static String join(Collection<?> values, char delimiter)
{
    return join(values, String.valueOf(delimiter));
}

public static String join(Collection<?> values, String delimiter)
{
    if (values == null)
    {
        return new String();
    }

    StringBuffer strbuf = new StringBuffer();

    boolean first = true;

    for (Object value : values)
    {
        if (!first) { strbuf.append(delimiter); } else { first = false; }
        strbuf.append(value.toString());
    }

    return strbuf.toString();
}

Answer 4

Apache Commons Lang does indeed have a StringUtils.join method which will connect String arrays together with a specified separator.

For example:

String[] s = new String[] {"a", "b", "c"};
String joined = StringUtils.join(s, ",");  // "a,b,c"

However, I suspect that, as you mention, there must be some kind of conditional or substring processing in the actual implementation of the above mentioned method.

If I were to perform the String joining and didn't have any other reasons to use Commons Lang, I would probably roll my own to reduce the number of dependencies to external libraries.

Answer 5

With Java 1.8 there is a new StringJoiner class - so no need for Guava or Apache Commons:

String str = new StringJoiner(",").add("a").add("b").add("c").toString();

Or using a collection directly with the new stream api:

String str = Arrays.asList("a", "b", "c").stream().collect(Collectors.joining(","));

Answer 6

A fast and simple solution without any 3rd party includes.

public static String strJoin(String[] aArr, String sSep) {
    StringBuilder sbStr = new StringBuilder();
    for (int i = 0, il = aArr.length; i < il; i++) {
        if (i > 0)
            sbStr.append(sSep);
        sbStr.append(aArr[i]);
    }
    return sbStr.toString();
}