List from single values

Syntax

	[$e1, ..., $eN]

list($e1,... $eN)

Description

Creates a fixed length list from the evaluations of the given expressions e1,... eN. The first short form is known from JSON list notation, the second form reads better as a function call. Lists are ordered and may contain an element multiple times.

A list cannot be modified afterwards. To add new elements, for example, Concatenation can be used to create a new list.

Parameters

Name Type Description Mandatory Default
e Number/string/boolean/Business object/set A single value to be inserted into the list. Any number of single values can be inserted. yes

Return value

Type: Set

A set with the given scalar values.

Examples

List of strings

	["hello", "how", "are", "you"]

Output: A list with the elements ["hello", "how", "are", "you"].

List of numbers

	list(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Output: A list with the elements [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

List of different data types

	list(1, "hello", true, date(2021, 9, 21))

Output: A set with the elements [1, "hello", true, date(2021, 9, 21)]