From 80d827fd89567b86d3408f9125d62cf426b73662 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henri Yandell <bayard@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 05:21:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a concatenate method. While this is just a join with a
 "" delimiter, the Avalon StringUtil shows that this is a valid way of looking
 at the functionality.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/proper/lang/trunk@136939 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java    | 12 +++++++++++-
 .../org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtilsTest.java     |  4 +++-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java
index 2034bcffc..100b52835 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ import java.util.Iterator;
  * @author <a href="mailto:ed@apache.org">Ed Korthof</a>
  * @author <a href="mailto:rand_mcneely@yahoo.com>Rand McNeely</a>
  * @author <a href="mailto:scolebourne@joda.org>Stephen Colebourne</a>
- * @version $Id: StringUtils.java,v 1.3 2002/07/21 20:19:50 bayard Exp $
+ * @version $Id: StringUtils.java,v 1.4 2002/07/23 05:21:28 bayard Exp $
  */
 public class StringUtils {
 
@@ -469,6 +469,16 @@ public class StringUtils {
 
     // Joining
     //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    /**
+     * Concatenates elements of an array into a single string.
+     * The difference from join is that concatenate has no delimiter.
+     * 
+     * @param array  the array of values to concatenate.
+     * @return the concatenated string.
+     */
+    public static String concatenate(Object[] array) {
+        return join(array, "");
+    }
     
     /**
      * Joins the elements of the provided array into a single string
diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtilsTest.java b/src/test/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtilsTest.java
index 09d2b71c0..415c1dde3 100644
--- a/src/test/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtilsTest.java
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtilsTest.java
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ import junit.textui.TestRunner;
  * @author <a href="mailto:bayard@generationjava.com">Henri Yandell</a>
  * @author <a href="mailto:scolebourne@joda.org">Stephen Colebourne</a>
  * @author <a href="mailto:ridesmet@users.sourceforge.net">Ringo De Smet</a>
- * @version $Id: StringUtilsTest.java,v 1.1 2002/07/19 03:35:55 bayard Exp $
+ * @version $Id: StringUtilsTest.java,v 1.2 2002/07/23 05:21:27 bayard Exp $
  */
 public class StringUtilsTest extends TestCase
 {
@@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ public class StringUtilsTest extends TestCase
 
     public void testJoin()
     {
+        assertEquals("concatenate(Object[]) failed", 
+                     "foobarbaz", StringUtils.concatenate(ARRAY_LIST));
         assertEquals("join(Object[], String) failed", TEXT_LIST,
                      StringUtils.join(ARRAY_LIST, SEPARATOR));
         assertEquals("join(Iterator, String) failed", TEXT_LIST,