Caché ObjectScript Reference - InterSystems Documentation

$LISTTOSTRING• $LISTNEXT• $LISTTOSTRING$LISTTOSTRINGCreates a string from a list.$LISTTOSTRING(list,delimiter)$LTS(list,delimiter)ParameterslistdelimiterA Caché list, created using $LISTBUILD or $LISTFROMSTRING, orextracted from another list using $LIST.Optional — A delimiter used to separate substrings. Specify delimiter asa quoted string. If no delimiter is specified, the default is the comma (,)character.Description$LISTTOSTRING takes a Caché list and converts it to a string. In the resulting string, theelements of the list are separated by the delimiter.A list represents data in an encoded format which does not use delimiter characters. Thus alist can contain all possible characters, and is ideally suited for bit-string data.$LISTTOSTRING converts this list to a string with delimited elements. It sets aside aspecified character (or character string) to serve as a delimiter. These delimited elements canbe handled using the $PIECE function.Note:The delimiter specified here must not occur in the source data. Caché makes no distinctionbetween a character serving as a delimiter and the same character as a datacharacter.ParameterslistA Caché list, which contains one or more elements. A list is created using $LISTBUILD orextracted from another list using $LIST.If the expression in the list parameter does not evaluate to a valid list, a error occurs.Caché ObjectScript Reference 261