Python - String Matrix Concatenation

Python – String Matrix Concatenation

Last Updated : 30 Dec, 2020

Sometimes, while working with Matrix we can have a problem in which we have Strings and we need a universal concatanation of all the String present in it. Let’s discuss certain ways in which this task can be performed.

Method #1 : Using list comprehension + join()
We can solve this problem using the list comprehension as a potential shorthand to the conventional loops that we may use to perform this particular task. We just join the elements extracted and put them into a as a single string.

# Python3 code to demonstrate
# String Matrix Concatenation
# Using list comprehension
  
# initializing list
test_list = [["geeksforgeeks", " is", " best"], [" I", " Love"], [" Gfg"]]
  
# printing original list
print("The original list : " + str(test_list))
  
# using list comprehension
# count of all the elements in list
res = "".join([ele for sub in test_list for ele in sub])
  
# print result
print("The Matrix Concatenation is : " + str(res))

Output :

The original list : [['geeksforgeeks', ' is', ' best'], [' I', ' Love'], [' Gfg']]
The Matrix Concatenation is : geeksforgeeks is best I Love Gfg

Method #2 : Using chain() + join()
This particular problem can also be solved using the chain function instead of list comprehension in which we use the conventional join function to join.

# Python3 code to demonstrate
# String Matrix Concatenation 
# Using chain() + join()
from itertools import chain
  
# initializing list
test_list = [["geeksforgeeks", " is", " best"], [" I", " Love"], [" Gfg"]]
  
# printing original list
print("The original list : " + str(test_list))
  
# using chain() + join()
# String Matrix Concatenation
res = "".join(list(chain(*test_list)))
  
# print result
print("The Matrix Concatenation is : " + str(res))

Output :

The original list : [['geeksforgeeks', ' is', ' best'], [' I', ' Love'], [' Gfg']]
The Matrix Concatenation is : geeksforgeeks is best I Love Gfg

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