Merge values of an array into a single cell - google-sheets

I have an array that I would like to put into a single cell, with commas to make a list. I'm starting with an array of varying length in column BY:
Red
Blue
Green
Yellow
Purple
Brown
White
Black
Orange
and I want to have all of these put into a cell so it reads, "Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Purple, Brown, White, Black, Orange"
The list is dynamic, so sometimes it will be just 1 color and other times it may have 50 colors.
I was trying things like,
=concatenate(arrayformula('1'!BY1:BY))
but that returns RedBlueGreenYellowPurpleBrownWhiteBlackOrange
Any ideas for me? Thank you in advance!
NJD


The function you want is join, as in
=join(", ", BY1:BY)
or, since you probably want to exclude empty cells at the bottom of that column,
=join(", ", filter(BY1:BY, len(BY1:BY)))
where filter keeps only nonempty cells.

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Krijn
Fieke
Anna
Krijn
Fieke
blue
green
blue
green
blue
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blue
green
blue
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or to place it more directly:
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VariantAttribute
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