Text Processing Functions

The join function

It receives a delimiter and a list of strings, and joins the strings into a single string, such that they are separated by the delimiter.

Note that the delimiter is written inside quotes.

Examples:

• @list = ("programming", "course", "for", "bioinformatics");
  $string = join ("::", @list);
  
  # $string is now "programming::course::for::bioinformatics"
  

• $name =       "protein kinase C";
  $mol_weight = "450 Kilodaltons";
  $seq_length = "120 Kilobases";
  
  $string = join ("\t", $name, $mol_weight, $seq_length);
  
  # $string is now:
  # "protein kinase C\t450 Kilodaltons\t120 Kilobases"