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# join

## 🔗NAME

join

## 🔗SYNOPSIS

join a table of strings with a specified separator

## 🔗USAGE

    local du = require "lib/dtutils"
    local result = du.join(tabl, pat)

tabl - table - a table of strings
pat - string - a separator

## 🔗DESCRIPTION

join assembles a table of strings into a string with the specified pattern in between each string

## 🔗RETURN VALUE

result - string - the joined string on success, or an empty string on failure

## 🔗EXAMPLE

    join({a, "long", "path", "name", "to", a, "file.txt"}, " ")

would return the string “a long path name to a file.txt”

## 🔗REFERENCE

http://lua-users.org/wiki/SplitJoin

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