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title: join
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id: join
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weight: 40
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draft: false
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author: "people"
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---
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## NAME
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join
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## SYNOPSIS
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join a table of strings with a specified separator
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## USAGE
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```
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local du = require "lib/dtutils"
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local result = du.join(tabl, pat)
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```
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**tabl** - _table_ - a table of strings
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**pat** - _string_ - a separator
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## DESCRIPTION
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**join** assembles a table of strings into a string with the specified pattern
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in between each string
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## RETURN VALUE
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**result** - _string_ - the joined string on success, or an empty string on failure
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## EXAMPLE
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```
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join({a, "long", "path", "name", "to", a, "file.txt"}, " ")
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```
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would return the string
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"a long path name to a file.txt"
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## REFERENCE
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http://lua-users.org/wiki/SplitJoin
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