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==Usage notes==
==Usage notes==
<ul><li>All errors result in request cancellation.<li>Before <var class="product">Sirius Mods</var> Version 6.6, it was a request cancelling error to try to add a string longer than the size limit of a <var>Stringlist</var> item: 6124 bytes. This limitation was eliminated in <var class="product">Sirius Mods</var> Version 6.6.<li>The <var>[[Push (Stringlist function)|Push]]</var> and <var>[[Enqueue (Stringlist function)|Enqueue]]</var> stringlist methods are the same as the <var>Add</var> method. <var>[[Push (Stringlist function)|Push]]</var> was designed as a convenience for use with <var>[[Pop (Stringlist function)|Pop]]</var>. <var>[[Enqueue (Stringlist function)|Enqueue]]</var> was designed as a convenience for use with <var>[[Dequeue (Stringlist function)|Dequeue]]</var>.
<ul><li>All errors result in request cancellation.
<li>The <var>[[Push (Stringlist function)|Push]]</var> and <var>[[Enqueue (Stringlist function)|Enqueue]]</var> stringlist methods are the same as the <var>Add</var> method with the exception that (under <var class="product">Sirius Mods</var> 7.9 and later) <var>Add</var> can add more than one item to the method object <var>Stringlist</var> whereas <var>Push</var> and <var>Enqueue</var> can only add one. <var>[[Push (Stringlist function)|Push]]</var> was designed as a convenience for use with <var>[[Pop (Stringlist function)|Pop]]</var>. <var>[[Enqueue (Stringlist function)|Enqueue]]</var> was designed as a convenience for use with <var>[[Dequeue (Stringlist function)|Dequeue]]</var>.
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==Examples==
==Examples==



Revision as of 03:16, 14 March 2011

Add strings to Stringlist (Stringlist class)


This callable method adds arbitrary string data to a Stringlist. The Add method accepts one or more arguments and returns a numeric result.

Syntax

[%number =] sl:Add( itemList)

Syntax terms

%number A numeric variable to contain the number of items in the indicated Stringlist after the strings have been added. %number is also the item number associated with the last added string in the Stringlist.
sl A Stringlist object.
string Under Sirius Mods 7.9 and later, this is a comma-delimited set of strings, each of which, from left to right, is added to the method object Stringlist. The items in the list could themselves beStringlists, in which case each item in the input Stringlist is added to the targetStringlist. Under Sirius Mods 7.8 and earlier, itemList could only be a single string that is to be added to the Stringlist.

Usage notes

  • All errors result in request cancellation.
  • The Push and Enqueue stringlist methods are the same as the Add method with the exception that (under Sirius Mods 7.9 and later) Add can add more than one item to the method object Stringlist whereas Push and Enqueue can only add one. Push was designed as a convenience for use with Pop. Enqueue was designed as a convenience for use with Dequeue.

Examples

Adding a single item to a Stringlist

In the following example, four comma-delimited field values are added to a Stringlist for each record in a Recordset:

%list is object stringList ... %list = new for each record in %recset %data = ssn with ',' with lname with ',' - fname with ',' with mi %list:add(%data) end for

Adding multiple items to a Stringlist

In the following example, a string literal, the contents of a variable, and the contents of another Stringlist are added to a Stringlist:

b %sl is object stringlist %python is string len 32 %stooges is object stringlist %stooges = list('Moe', 'Larry', 'Curly') %sl = list('John', 'Michael', 'Eric') %python = 'Graham' %sl:add('Terry', %python, %stooges) %sl:print end

This outputs:

John Michael Eric Terry Graham Moe Larry Curly

See also