Sounds simple enough but I can't find any reasonable examples. I'm probably not looking hard enough.

I want a series of input boxes in a form. Stick some info in each and then to either click a button or the output be generated live (AJAX?) with the result being the input concatenated with certain characters between the input text.

So

Box 1 : texta
Box 2 : textb
Box 3 : textc
Box 4 : textd

Output : texta;textb:textc:textd

(the semicolon was intentional)

Any ideas?

result = [box1.value, box2.value, box3.value].join(";");

                   ──┬──
 ┌──┌─┐┌─┌─┐┌─┐│ │┌─┐│┌─┐
 │  │ ││ │ ││ │├─┤│ │││ │
 │  ├─┤├ ├┬┘├─┘│ ││ │││ │
 └──│ │└─│└┐│  │ │└─┘│└─┘

It needs to be a variety of things. Well, one ; and the rest :

Oh, and some nothing at all.

result = box1.value + ";" +
    [box2.value, box3.value, box4.value].join(":");

                   ──┬──
 ┌──┌─┐┌─┌─┐┌─┐│ │┌─┐│┌─┐
 │  │ ││ │ ││ │├─┤│ │││ │
 │  ├─┤├ ├┬┘├─┘│ ││ │││ │
 └──│ │└─│└┐│  │ │└─┘│└─┘

=(CONCATENATE(A11,";",B11,":",C11,":",D11,E11,F11,G11,":",H11,":",I11,":",J11,K11,":",L11,":",M11,":",N11,":",O11,":",P11,":",Q11,":",R11))

result = [
    box1.value, ";",
    box2.value, ":",
    box3.value, ":",
    box4.value,
    box5.value,
    // etc.
    box23.value
].join("");

                   ──┬──
 ┌──┌─┐┌─┌─┐┌─┐│ │┌─┐│┌─┐
 │  │ ││ │ ││ │├─┤│ │││ │
 │  ├─┤├ ├┬┘├─┘│ ││ │││ │
 └──│ │└─│└┐│  │ │└─┘│└─┘

I'm sorry. I meant to say thanks.

I'm so rude :-(