Problem 1682. Make a list string

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Given a cell string, produce a string separating the items with spaces and commas and with an 'and' preceding the final item, and ending with a full stop.

Input x = {'apples' 'oranges' 'pears' 'salmon'}

Output y = 'apples, oranges, pears and salmon.'

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Dyuman Joshi on 21 Dec 2020

Needs more test cases, having arrays with more than 4 elements.

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