<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >join</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="DSSSL Library Reference" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Miscellaneous" HREF="r300.htm"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="strip" HREF="strip.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="pad-string" HREF="pad-string.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >DSSSL Library Reference: Part of the Modular DocBook Stylesheet distribution</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="strip.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="pad-string.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="JOIN" ></A >join</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN403" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >join -- Joins a list of strings together</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN406" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >(join slist #!optional (space " "))</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN409" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P >Given a list of strings and a space string, returns the string that results from joining all the strings in the list together, separated by space.</P ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >slist</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >The list of strings.</P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >space</TT ></DT ><DD ><P >The string to place between each member of the list. Defaults to a single space.</P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN423" ></A ><H2 >Author</H2 ><P >David Carlisle</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN426" ></A ><H2 >Source Code</H2 ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >(define (join slist #!optional (space " ")) ;; Joins a list of strings together (letrec ((loop (lambda (l result) (if (null? l) result (loop (cdr l) (cons space (cons (car l) result))))))) (if (null? slist) "" (apply string-append (cons (car slist) (loop (reverse (cdr slist)) '() ))))))</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="strip.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="pad-string.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >strip</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r300.htm" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >pad-string</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >