llCSV2List

I'm getting confused about the syntax of llCSV2List.

I want to start with a string such as:

string mystring "As, Bs, Js, Dc, 10b";

Then convert this to a list such as with...

list mylist = llCSV2List(mystring);

Everything is declared but this is still an error?

Can someone show me an example of the correct way? And by the way, the WIKI did not answer my question.

string mystring = "As, Bs, Js, Dc, 10b";

The error message you get is something like:
(4, 17) : ERROR : Syntax error

Which tells you the line number, the character position and the type of error. In this case character position 17 is just after "mystring". Looking one can see that an "=" is missing.

Read and try to figure out the error messages.

BTW, error line numbering seems to start at 0, kind of funny.

ah ok.. I posted that wrong... here is the actual code I just now tested.

string mystring = "2a, 2b, 3c";

list mylist = llCSV2List(mystring);

The error msg says that the error is at the end of the "llCSV2List"

What error is it giving? Your syntax looks fine to me.

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I've decided to try and work this one out without any further help. Thanks to everyone for helping so far.

I've seen bugs in CVS2List relating to spaces. IE, Sl delimits by ', ' rather than just ',' - I find it's better to use:

llParseString2List(string,[","],[" "]);

-Adam

Do you recommend not putting the spaces in the original CSV string if possible? IE:

string mystring = "this,is,the,string";

versus

string mystring = "this, is, my, string";

I can easily understand why the "spaceless" string would work better. That would make sense. I better go look at some documentation on the llCSV2List function again! Thanks for the heads up!

Well, that's the bug. The first string you posted, last time I checked, will actually parse entirely as one list item. Only the second one will work with llCVS2List, whereas the function I posted will accept both forms.

-Adam

Thanks, I will make sure I use that method. By the way, do you know if one method uses more or less memory? (not important, I'm just curoius... I guess I could try it and do an llSay of the memory left...)

Thanks, that will definately help with this project I am working on!

Both will be identical in memory use and runtime.

-Adam