kotlin-stdlib/kotlin.text/reduceOrNull

reduceOrNull

inline fun CharSequence.reduceOrNull(operation: (acc: Char, Char) -> Char): Char?(source)

Accumulates value starting with the first character and applying operation from left to right to current accumulator value and each character.

Returns null if the char sequence is empty.

Since Kotlin

1.4

Parameters

operation

function that takes current accumulator value and a character, and calculates the next accumulator value.

Samples

import kotlin.test.*

fun main() { 
   //sampleStart 
   val strings = listOf("a", "b", "c", "d")
println(strings.reduceOrNull { acc, string -> acc + string }) // abcd
println(strings.reduceIndexedOrNull { index, acc, string -> acc + string + index }) // ab1c2d3

println(emptyList<String>().reduceOrNull { _, _ -> "" }) // null 
   //sampleEnd
}