Turning a list of strings into a single string in clojure

Question

For example, let's say I have a list

'("The" " " "Brown" " " "Cow")

I want to turn this into

"The Brown Cow" 

Is there a command in clojure that does this?

Answer 1

I would rather use apply for that:

(apply str '("The" " " "Brown" " " "Cow"))

Since it calls the function just once, it is much more efficient for large collections:

(defn join-reduce [strings] (reduce str strings))
(defn join-apply [strings] (apply str strings))

user> (time (do (join-reduce (repeat 50000 "hello"))
                nil))
"Elapsed time: 4708.637673 msecs"
nil
user> (time (do (join-apply (repeat 50000 "hello"))
                nil))
"Elapsed time: 2.281443 msecs"
nil