The <fn:join()> is a string function of JSP Standard tag Library(JSTL).This function is used for joining all the elements of an array into a string with a specified operator and returns the output. This function returns string with all the elements of an array separated by a separator.
Syntax of <fn:join()> function
java.lang.String join(java.lang.String[], java.lang.String)
Example of <fn:join()> function
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" prefix="fn"%> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>Insert title here</title> </head> <body> <c:set var="str" value="mahantesh maruti" /> <c:set var="str1" value="${fn:split(str,' ')}" /> <c:out value="${fn:join(str1,'-')}" /> </body> </html>
Details of the Code
- <c:set var=”str” value=”mahantesh maruti” /> tag is used to set the value for variable into the given scope .
- <c:set var=”str1″ value=”${fn:split(str,’ ‘)}” /> tag uses split() function to split string into an array of substrings based on given delimiter.
- <c:out value=”${fn:join(str1,’-‘)}” /> tag is used to join the elements of array into string separated by the separator.
Steps for Execution
- Save this file as join_example.jsp in your eclipse IDE.
- Now select this jsp file, right mouse click and select Run as ->Run on server
Output
When the execution process completed successfully we will get the following output:
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