Is there any haskell function to concatenate list with separator?

It's not hard to write one-liner using foldr

join sep xs = foldr (\a b-> a ++ if b=="" then b else sep ++ b) "" xs
join " " ["is","there","such","a","function","?"]

Some other ideas of implementations of intersperse and intercalate, if someone is interested:

myIntersperse :: a -> [a] -> [a]
myIntersperse _ [] = []
myIntersperse e xs = init $ xs >>= (:[e])

myIntercalate :: [a] -> [[a]] -> [a]
myIntercalate e xs = concat $ myIntersperse e xs

xs >>= f is equivalent to concat (map f xs).


Yes, there is:

Prelude> import Data.List
Prelude Data.List> intercalate " " ["is","there","such","a","function","?"]
"is there such a function ?"

intersperse is a bit more general:

Prelude> import Data.List
Prelude Data.List> concat (intersperse " " ["is","there","such","a","function","?"])
"is there such a function ?"

Also, for the specific case where you want to join with a space character, there is unwords:

Prelude> unwords ["is","there","such","a","function","?"]
"is there such a function ?"

unlines works similarly, only that the strings are imploded using the newline character and that a newline character is also added to the end. (This makes it useful for serializing text files, which must per POSIX standard end with a trailing newline)


joinBy sep cont = drop (length sep) $ concat $ map (\w -> sep ++ w) cont