From: merch-redmine@...
Date: 2018-08-24T20:55:04+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:88639] [Ruby trunk Feature#15024] Support block in	Array#join

Issue #15024 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans).


For `%{a b c d}.join { |_,_,i| i.to_s } == "a0b1c2d"`, you could do:

~~~ ruby
*a, l = %w{a b c d}; a.each.with_object('').with_index{|(v, str), i| str << v << i.to_s} << l
~~~

That definitely isn't as nice looking.  I can see the benefit of having the block return the separator, but I'm not sure how common such a need is.  It's fairly straightforward to build the string manually in the cases you would need a separate separator per pair of items.

Could you share a practical example that would benefit from Array#join block support?

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Feature #15024: Support block in Array#join
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15024#change-73697

* Author: graywolf (Gray Wolf)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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I think it could be handy to have block support in Array#join.

For example

```ruby
> puts %w{a b c d}.join { |_, _, i| i % 2 == 1 ? "\n" : ', ' }
a, b
c, d
```

not sure what arguments exactly the block should take, atm I'm thinking
of

```ruby
> %w{a b c d}.join { |before, after, i| puts "#{before}:#{after}:#{i}" }
a:b:0
b:c:1
c:d:2
```

Would appreciate some feedback before I try putting together patch for this.




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