Is there any haskell function to concatenate list with separator?

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Fopa Léon Constantin picture Fopa Léon Constantin · Feb 10, 2012 · Viewed 73.6k times · Source

Is there a function to concatenate elements of a list with a separator? For example:

> foobar " " ["is","there","such","a","function","?"]
["is there such a function ?"]

Thanks for any reply!

Answer

Niklas B. picture Niklas B. · Feb 10, 2012

Yes, there is:

Prelude> import Data.List
Prelude Data.List> intercalate " " ["is","there","such","a","function","?"]
"is there such a function ?"

intersperse is a bit more general:

Prelude> import Data.List
Prelude Data.List> concat (intersperse " " ["is","there","such","a","function","?"])
"is there such a function ?"

Also, for the specific case where you want to join with a space character, there is unwords:

Prelude> unwords ["is","there","such","a","function","?"]
"is there such a function ?"

unlines works similarly, only that the strings are imploded using the newline character and that a newline character is also added to the end. (This makes it useful for serializing text files, which must per POSIX standard end with a trailing newline)

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