Concatenating text-box values and displaying in a paragraph

Question

I am using map() to collect the text-box values into an array, and then printing the values in a paragraph successfully.

$("p")
  .append($("input").map(function() {
    return $(this).val();
  })
  .get()
  .join(", "));

However I want to store the concatenated values in a variable before showing it on the screen, so that I can re-use the value later. How can I store this value without appending it to the <p> tag?

Answer 1

Never mind. For anybody with a similar need, I did this:

var x = $("input").map(function() {
        return $(this).val();
      })
      .get().join(", ");

$("p").append(x);