What is the equivalent of the join operator over a

Question

I wasn't able to find the Rust equivalent for the "join" operator over a vector of Strings. I have a Vec<String> and I'd like to join them as a single String:

let string_list = vec!["Foo".to_string(),"Bar".to_string()];
let joined = something::join(string_list,"-");
assert_eq!("Foo-Bar", joined);

Answer 1

In Rust 1.3.0 and later, SliceConcatExt::join is available:

fn main() {
    let string_list = vec!["Foo".to_string(),"Bar".to_string()];
    let joined = string_list.join("-");
    assert_eq!("Foo-Bar", joined);
}

Before 1.3.0 you can use SliceConcatExt::connect:

let joined = string_list.connect("-");

Note that you do not need any imports as the methods are automatically imported by the standard library prelude.

Answer 2

There is a function from the itertools crate also called join which joins an iterator:

extern crate itertools; // 0.7.8

use itertools::free::join;
use std::fmt;

pub struct MyScores {
    scores: Vec<i16>,
}

impl fmt::Display for MyScores {
    fn fmt(&self, fmt: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        fmt.write_str("MyScores(")?;
        fmt.write_str(&join(&self.scores[..], &","))?;
        fmt.write_str(")")?;
        Ok(())
    }
}

fn main() {
    let my_scores = MyScores {
        scores: vec![12, 23, 34, 45],
    };
    println!("{}", my_scores); // outputs MyScores(12,23,34,45)
}

Answer 3

As mentioned by Wilfred, SliceConcatExt::connect has been deprecated since version 1.3.0 in favour of SliceConcatExt::join:

let joined = string_list.join("-");