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Asked: May 20, 20262026-05-20T09:35:37+00:00 2026-05-20T09:35:37+00:00

I am using Ruby on Rails 3 and I am trying join an array

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I am using Ruby on Rails 3 and I am trying join an array with the & character. I read the Ruby documentation about that.

My array is:

["name1", "name2"]

If I do

["name1", "name2"].join("&")

it results as

name1&name2

I would like that results as

&name1&name2 # Note the first "&"

A solution is

["", "name1", "name2"].join("&")

but I think it is not a “right way”.

So, how can I have &name1&name2 without using ["", "name1", "name2"].join("&")?

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    2026-05-20T09:35:38+00:00Added an answer on May 20, 2026 at 9:35 am

    The whole point of join is that you only get characters between the joined items. You want one in front of every item. I don’t know of a short way, but it seems more natural just to map them and then join them without a delimiter:

    ["name1", "name2"].map{|item| '&'+item}.join
    
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