Add a better version of join. #1
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Skips empty arguments. Handles defaults. Has tests.
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| # $1: String separator | ||
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| # $1: String default, used in case array to join is empty |
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Based on the principle of do one thing and do it well, can you remove the "default"?
I feel this is conflating two responsibilities into one function (join should just join, nothing more, nothing less).
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| # $2: String separator, has to be a single element |
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Since we're making array_join better, why don't we improve it to allow any join string, rather than just a single character?
I can imagine this is useful, e.g. say you want to create a human-readable CSV, so you want to join by ", " (comma-space).
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A better name for the ifs variable here would be join_string.
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Can you add the following test for joining an element containing a newline?
test_join_multiline_string_element() {
local result
local -a test_input=(
"foo"
"bar"
"omg"$'\n'"baz"
)
result=$(join "def" "," "${test_input[@]}")
[ "$result" == "foo,bar,omg"$'\n'"baz" ]
}The current code fails this test.
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Skips empty arguments.
Handles defaults.
Has tests.