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Topic: Converting a list of strings to a single space-delimited string
Replies: 9   Last Post: Nov 16, 2011 4:06 AM

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leigh pascoe

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Re: Converting a list of strings to a single space-delimited string
Posted: Nov 16, 2011 4:06 AM
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Le 10/11/2011 12:53, Andrew DeYoung a =C3=A9crit :
> 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[Riffle[mylst, " "]]

LP

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