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String::Join<T> Method (String^, IEnumerable<T>^)

.NET Framework (current version)

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Concatenates the members of a collection, using the specified separator between each member.

Namespace: System
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

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public:
generic<typename T>
[ComVisibleAttribute(false)]
static String^ Join(
	String^ separator,
	IEnumerable<T>^ values
)

Parameters

separator: Type: System::String^
The string to use as a separator.separator is included in the returned string only if values has more than one element.

values: Type: System.Collections.Generic::IEnumerable<T>^
A collection that contains the objects to concatenate.

Return Value

Type: System::String^

A string that consists of the members of values delimited by the separator string. If values has no members, the method returns String::Empty.

Type Parameters

T: The type of the members of values.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentNullException	values is null.

Remarks

If separator is null, an empty string (String::Empty) is used instead. If any member of values is null, an empty string is used instead.

Join<T>(String^, IEnumerable<T>^) is a convenience method that lets you concatenate each member of an IEnumerable<T> collection without first converting them to strings. The string representation of each object in the IEnumerable<T> collection is derived by calling that object's ToString method.

This method is particular useful with Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) query expressions. For example, the following code defines a very simple Animal class that contains the name of an animal and the order to which it belongs. It then defines a List<T> object that contains a number of Animal objects. The Enumerable::Where<TSource> extension method is called to extract the Animal objects whose Order property equals "Rodent". The result is passed to the Join<T>(String^, IEnumerable<T>^) method.

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Examples

The following example uses the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm to calculate the prime numbers that are less than or equal to 100. It assigns the result to a List<T> object of type integer, which it then passes to the Join<T>(String^, IEnumerable<T>^) method.

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