Java: Join strings with Collectors.joining

joining concatenates stream elements with a delimiter, prefix and suffix.

Code

String csv = Stream.of("Ava", "Ben", "Cara")
        .collect(Collectors.joining(", ", "[", "]"));
System.out.println(csv);

Output

[Ava, Ben, Cara]

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Published 2026-07-26