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tolist
Format: tolist( text, sep )
Arguments: (text) text Input text string
[text] sep Optional list of possible separators;
default = ","
Returns: [text] List of text fragments created by
breaking text into parts delimited by any string in the
list sep
Description: Tolist converts a text string into a list
of substrings. A new substring is created every time any one of
the delimiters in sep is encountered.
Examples: tolist("A text
string"," ") = [A,text,string]
tolist("1; 2; ; Some Text;
3.14","; ") = [1,2,,Some Text,3.14]
tolist("a b; c d",[";
"," "]) = [a,b,c,d]
count(tolist(txt," ")) = counts
the number of words (delimited by spaces) in txt
See Also: tostring,
tonumber, eval
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