Java jstl function join
The JSTL (JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library) fn
tag library provides a set of functions for manipulating strings, collections, and other objects in JSP (JavaServer Pages) pages. One of the functions in the fn
tag library is the fn:join
function, which is used to concatenate the elements of a collection into a string using a separator.
The fn:join
function takes two arguments: the collection to concatenate, and the separator to use between the elements. The function returns a string containing the concatenated elements of the collection separated by the separator. The syntax of the function is as follows:
${fn:join(collection, separator)}
where collection
is the collection to concatenate, and separator
is the separator to use between the elements.
For example, to concatenate the elements of the collection [1, 2, 3]
into a string separated by commas, you would use the following expression:
${fn:join([1, 2, 3], ',')}
This expression returns the string "1,2,3"
, which is the elements of the collection separated by commas.
You can also use variables instead of literals for the collection
and separator
arguments. For example, if you have a variable numbers
containing a collection of numbers, and a variable delimiter
containing a separator, you can concatenate the elements of the collection into a string using the following expression:
${fn:join(numbers, delimiter)}
This expression returns a string containing the elements of the collection separated by the separator in the variable delimiter
.
Note that the fn
tag library must be imported at the beginning of the JSP page using the following tag:
<%@ taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %>
This imports the fn
tag library and assigns it a prefix of fn
.