>
> Most SQL Database support array types natively

If you are using MySQL unfortunately there isn't and the OP (including 
myself) probably needs this because his RDBMS does not support the array 
type. 

On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 2:47:45 PM UTC+3, Thomas Heller wrote:
>
> My Question would be: why are you trying to do this? You mentioned you are 
> working with a database, I assume that means SQL (as almost all NoSQL 
> Databases support some kind of JSON which doesnt require your 
> "workarround"). Most SQL Database support array types natively, while 
> support might be a little itchy (at least in JDBC terms) it still beats a 
> comma seperated list.
>
> In all other cases just use clojure.core/pr-str and the new 
> clojure.edn/read-string when reading it back.
>
> Just my 2 cents,
> /thomas
>
> On Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:18:08 AM UTC+2, andrei wrote:
>>
>> Hi all, 
>>
>> I work with a database and need a function, that will convert Clojure 
>> sequence to a string with a comma-separated elements. E.g., 
>>
>>   (comma-separated (list 1 2 3 4 5))  ==>  "1, 2, 3, 4, 5" 
>>
>> It must work with any data type - ints, strings, other lists, etc. 
>> E.g. for a list of strings it must generate 
>>
>>   (comma-separated (list "1" "2" "3" "4" "5"))  ==>  "\"1\", \"2\", 
>> \"3\", \"4\", \"5\"" 
>>
>> I tried `cl-format` function from clojure.contrib.pprint package: 
>>
>>   (cl-format nil "~{~S~^, ~}" lst) 
>>
>> It works fine, but is too slow. Next, I tried such function: 
>>
>>   (defn comma-separated [s] 
>>       (if (= (type (first s)) String) 
>>          (chop (chop (chop (str "\" (apply str (interleave s 
>> (repeatedly (fn [] "\", \""))))))) 
>>          (chop (chop (apply str (interleave s (repeatedly (fn [] ", 
>> "))))))))) 
>>
>> This one works much faster (~20 times), but it is ugly and still 
>> doesn't cover all cases. 
>>
>> So, what is the fastest way to generate such list?
>
>

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