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Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook Master the powerful Kotlin standard library through practical code examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788837668
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Samuel Urbanowicz Samuel Urbanowicz
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Ranges, Progressions, and Sequences 2. Expressive Functions and Adjustable Interfaces FREE CHAPTER 3. Shaping Code with Kotlin Functional Programming Features 4. Powerful Data Processing 5. Tasteful Design Patterns Adopting Kotlin Concepts 6. Friendly I/O Operations 7. Making Asynchronous Programming Great Again 8. Best Practices for the Android, JUnit, and JVM UI Frameworks 9. Miscellaneous 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building strings based on dataset elements

Sometimes, we face the problem of generating text based on collections' elements. This is where the Iterable.joinToString() extension function can help. For example, we can consider working on an email-message-forwarding feature. When a user clicks the forward button, the original message's body text is concatenated, with the prefix looking something like this:

<br/>
<p>---------- Forwarded message ----------</p>
<p>
From: johny.b@gmail.com <br/>
Date: 14/04/2000 <br/>
Subject: Any plans for the evening?<br/>
To: natasha@gmail.com, barbra@gmail.com<br/>
</p>

In this recipe, we are going to implement a function that is going to generate the recipients' string, for example:

To: natasha@gmail.com, barbra@gmail.com</br>

For a given list of Address type objects, it is defined...

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