Java: join array of primitives with separator

You can use Guava for joining elements. More examples and docs you can find there. https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/StringsExplained

Joiner.on("-")
      .join(texts);

To be more precise you should firstly wrap your array into a List with Arrays.asList() or Guava's primitive-friendly equivalents.

Joiner.on("-")
      .join(Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7));

Joiner.on("-")
      .join(Ints.asList(arr));

Java 8 Solution would be like this:

Stream.of(1,2,3,4).map(String::valueOf).collect(Collectors.joining("-"))

Here what I came up with. There are several way to do this and they are depends on the tools you using.

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Using StringUtils and ArrayUtils from Common Lang:

int[] arr = new int[] {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7};
String result = StringUtils.join(ArrayUtils.toObject(arr), " - ");

You can't just use StringUtils.join(arr, " - "); because StringUtils doesn't have that overloaded version of method. Though, it has method StringUtils.join(int[], char).

Works at any Java version, from 1.2.

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Using Java 8 streams:

Something like this:

int[] arr = new int[] {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7};
String result = Arrays.stream(arr)
        .mapToObj(String::valueOf)
        .collect(Collectors.joining(" - "));

In fact, there are lot of variations to achive the result using streams.

Java 8's method String.join() works only with strings, so to use it you still have to convert int[] to String[].

String[] sarr = Arrays.stream(arr).mapToObj(String::valueOf).toArray(String[]::new);
String result = String.join(" - ", sarr);

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If you stuck using Java 7 or earlier with no libraries, you could write your own utility method:

public static String myJoin(int[] arr, String separator) {
    if (null == arr || 0 == arr.length) return "";

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(256);
    sb.append(arr[0]);

    //if (arr.length == 1) return sb.toString();

    for (int i = 1; i < arr.length; i++) sb.append(separator).append(arr[i]);

    return sb.toString();
}

Than you can do:

int[] arr = new int[] {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7};
String result = myJoin(arr, " - ");

In Java 8+ you could use an IntStream and a StringJoiner. Something like,

int[] arr = new int[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 };
StringJoiner sj = new StringJoiner(" - ");
IntStream.of(arr).forEach(x -> sj.add(String.valueOf(x)));
System.out.println(sj.toString());

Output is (as requested)

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7