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authorJesper Louis Andersen <[email protected]>2016-04-09 17:17:59 +0200
committerJesper Louis Andersen <[email protected]>2016-04-09 17:22:37 +0200
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Implement lists:join/2
Add a call which works much like string:join/2 but for arbitrary lists. Provide the function itself, lifted from Haskells Data.List standard library, provide documentation and provide tests for the function.
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/src/lists.erl b/lib/stdlib/src/lists.erl
index 2b4472cdf7..af9d63ddd6 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/src/lists.erl
+++ b/lib/stdlib/src/lists.erl
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@
-export([all/2,any/2,map/2,flatmap/2,foldl/3,foldr/3,filter/2,
partition/2,zf/2,filtermap/2,
mapfoldl/3,mapfoldr/3,foreach/2,takewhile/2,dropwhile/2,splitwith/2,
- split/2]).
+ split/2,
+ join/2]).
%%% BIFs
-export([keyfind/3, keymember/3, keysearch/3, member/2, reverse/2]).
@@ -1439,6 +1440,18 @@ split(N, [H|T], R) ->
split(_, [], _) ->
badarg.
+-spec join(Sep, List1) -> List2 when
+ Sep :: T,
+ List1 :: [T],
+ List2 :: [T],
+ T :: term().
+
+join(_Sep, []) -> [];
+join(Sep, [H|T]) -> [H|join_prepend(Sep, T)].
+
+join_prepend(_Sep, []) -> [];
+join_prepend(Sep, [H|T]) -> [Sep,H|join_prepend(Sep,T)].
+
%%% =================================================================
%%% Here follows the implementation of the sort functions.
%%%