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Weave Strings Together

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Given a list of strings(and optionally, their length) as input, weave the strings together.

Intro

Your goal is to mimic the WV operator in Pip. Take a list of strings and alternate between their characters like so:

hello,
world, → hwc,eoo,lrd,lle,od → hwceoolrdlleod
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Effectively, you need to group the characters at each index, and join them into a single string.

The strings may have spaces.

No truncation should be done, and all the characters of each string must be used.

Test Cases

Without the outputs

["kino","cinema","movie"] → kcmiionnvoeimea
["code","golf"] → cgoodlef
["Hi","","There"] → HTihere
["Explanation"] → Explanation
["Dyalog APL","Cultivation","Orchard"] → DCOyuralclthoiagvr adAtPiLon

You check any other test cases with this program.

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Jelly, 2 1 byte

Z

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-1 byte thanks to Razetime!

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How it works

Z - Main link. Takes a list L on the left
Z - Transpose
    Implicitly print, smashing lists together to form one string
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APL (Dyalog Unicode), 10 bytes

Full program. Prompts for list of strings from stdin.

0~⍨,⍉↑0,¨⎕

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 prompt for list of strings

0,¨ prepend a zero to each

 convert to orthogonal matrix (increase rank at cost of depth), padding with 0s

 transpose

, ravel (flatten)

0~⍨ remove 0s

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Risky, 1 byte

0?

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0  transpose
?    input
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Japt -P, 7 2 bytes

Õc

Takes input as character arrays. -5 bytes thanks to @Shaggy

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Haskell, 40 bytes

f((h:t):r)=h:f(r++[t])
f(_:r)=f r
f _=[]

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Python 3, 72 69 bytes

lambda l:''.join(sum(zip(*[[*i]+['']*max(map(len,l))for i in l]),()))

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Uses this method to flat zip, with modifications to pad the shorter lists.

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Python 2, 58 54 bytes

lambda l:''.join(filter(None,sum(map(None,'',*l),())))

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Amazingly, shorter than my Python 3 answer! Uses this method to zip unequal-length lists and this method to flatten the result.

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JavaScript (Node.js), 53 bytes

f=(a,b=[],c=a.map(([a,...c])=>(b+=[a],c)))=>b&&b+f(c)

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BQN, 8 bytesSBCS

∾⊒˜¨⊔○∾⊢

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The idea here is to build a list of groups, with group i containing the ith character of each string that has one, then join the groups. The structure ∾ ⊒˜¨ ⊔○∾ ⊢ is a train of four functions: the last three form a 3-train and then Join () is applied to the result.

∾⊒˜¨⊔○∾⊢
       ⊢  # Argument, unchanged
 ⊒˜¨      # Indices for each string
    ⊔○∾   # Join both and group
∾         # Join group result

The function ⊒˜¨ converts a list of strings such as ⟨"ab","cde"⟩ into indices ⟨0‿1,0‿1‿2⟩. Occurrence Count searches for cells of the right argument in the left argument, taking the first match and never matching a cell more than once. When applied with the same list as left and right argument using ˜, it always matches each cell to itself as any previous cells that match it are used up. The result is the index of each match, giving sequential indices. Each (¨) simply applies this function to each string.

Group moves each character to the group with the specified index. For example, 0‿1‿0‿1‿2⊔"abcde" is ⟨"ac","bd","e"⟩. Since its arguments must be flat lists, not nested ones, it's applied as Group Over () Join, joining both arguments before applying. Instead of grouping and joining, it's also possible to sort by the indices with ⊒˜¨⍋⊸⊏○∾⊢. But longer.

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Scala, 60 bytes

_.map(_ map "".+).reduce(_.zipAll(_,"","")map(_+_)).mkString

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First, _.map(_ map "".+) turns every string into a list of strings containing a single character. After, these lists of strings are reduced by zipping with each other, padding with an empty string if needed, and then concatenating each pair together. At the end, all the strings are joined together with mkString.

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Ruby, 51 bytes

->a{(0..a.map(&:size).max).map{|n|a.map{_1[n]}}*""}

->a{                                              }  # lambda taking array `a`
    (0..a.map(&:size).max)                           # range of 0..length of longest string
                          .map{|n|            }      # map over indices range
                                  a.map{     }       # map over strings
                                        _1[n]        # nth character in string (or nil)
                                               *""   # recursive join to string

This exploits the following behaviors:

  • Indexing past the bound of a string is nil
"abc"[5]
=> nil
  • nil.to_s is the empty string
nil.to_s
=> ""
  • Array#join joins nested arrays recursively
[1,2,[3,4],5,[6,[7]]]*""
=> "1234567"

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Python 3, 91 90 bytes

Saved one byte thanks to Mark Giraffe in the comments

lambda l:"".join(["".join(x)for x in zip_longest(*l,fillvalue='')])
from itertools import*

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Ruby, 48 45 bytes

->w{([p].*w*''=~/$/).zip(*w.map(&:chars))*''}

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It could be improved to 32 bytes, if every string is represented as an array of characters:

->w{([p].*w*''=~/$/).zip(*w)*''}

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