Prolog concatenate all elements inside a list to make a string?

Question

How would I concatenate all the elements in a list together in prolog? I am trying to integrate it with my current function that outputs a list.

input = [a,b,c,d]

output = "abcd"

See [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/8269897/772868). – false Dec 10 '17 at 22:28 — false, Dec 10 '17 at 22:28

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 10 '17 at 22:53

If you input list contains characters then use this: Here list contains Characters and in X you get result back.

concate(X,List):-
   atom_chars(X,List).

For this query you get result as this:

concate(X,[a,b,c,d]).
  X = abcd.

Here X gets result as atom not string.

Now if you want a string back and you list contains atoms then you use this:

atomsToString(List,X):-
    atomics_to_string(List,X).

With this query:

?- atomsToString([a,b,c,d],X).
X = "abcd".

Here X contains a string.

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