# Printing an array without element type

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [October 27, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/printing-an-array-without-element-type/6731 "2017-10-27T21:38:09Z")\
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@Tamas_Papp that is basically the type of function I am using in my Dendriform.jl package to print arrays.  
I think if you have a specific need for printing things in a package, it makes sense to just define your own.

Another complaint I had previously is the spaces that have been inserted into the syntax, as I explained here:

> [@Printing of Arrays without spaces](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/printing-of-arrays-without-spaces/6283):
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> In previous version of Julia, printing an array was done without inserting spaces [8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1] Now in 0.6, it has spaces [8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1] where can I find the method in Base that I would have to overwrite in my .juliarc.jl in order to modify the printing to be without the spaces? It’s preferred by me since certain matrices I need to print will be aligned more neatly without the spaces.

My solution was to modify the `Base.show_delim_array` function to get rid of the spaces. (not `showarray`)

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