intersperse

Intersperse stream with provided element similar to List.mkString.

Simple operators

Signature

Source.intersperseSource.intersperse Flow.intersperseFlow.intersperse

Description

Intersperse stream with provided element similar to List.mkString. It can inject start and end marker elements to stream.

Example

The following takes a stream of integers, converts them to strings and then adds a [ at the start, , between each element and a ] at the end.

Scala

copysourceSource(1 to 4).map(_.toString).intersperse("[", ", ", "]").runWith(Sink.foreach(print))
// prints
// [1, 2, 3, 4]

Java

copysourceSource.from(Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3))
    .map(String::valueOf)
    .intersperse("[", ", ", "]")
    .runForeach(System.out::print, system);
// prints
// [1, 2, 3]

Reactive Streams semantics