{"id":6010,"date":"2024-03-14T03:42:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T03:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-is-the-usage-of-list-join-in-java\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T22:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:21:42","slug":"how-is-the-usage-of-list-join-in-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-is-the-usage-of-list-join-in-java\/","title":{"rendered":"Java List Join: Concatenate Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Java, List does not have a direct join method to concatenate all elements. However, you can achieve similar functionality using the Stream API in Java 8.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the Collectors.joining() method can be used to join all elements in a List as shown below:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> java.util.List;\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> java.util.stream.Collectors;\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">public<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">class<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title class_\">ListJoinExample<\/span> {\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">public<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">static<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">void<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">main<\/span><span class=\"hljs-params\">(String[] args)<\/span> {\r\n        List&lt;String&gt; list = List.of(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"apple\"<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"banana\"<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"cherry\"<\/span>);\r\n        \r\n        <span class=\"hljs-type\">String<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-variable\">result<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-operator\">=<\/span> list.stream()\r\n                            .collect(Collectors.joining(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\", \"<\/span>));\r\n        \r\n        System.out.println(result);\r\n    }\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the example above, we first created a List containing three elements. 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