How to store field values from a list into an array

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stefano L asked Oct 21, '19 Joerg Vogel edited Oct 21, '19

How to store field values from a list into an array

Hi, I'm trying to store field values (not the header) from a list into an array. In particular, I pushed items in a list called ListBox and now I want to store values of Dimension field into an array.

Is there a way to do it?

Thank you in advance for your answer.

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.0.0

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Answer 1 · 2019-10-21T09:16:58Z

Joerg Vogel answered Oct 21, '19 Joerg Vogel edited Oct 21, '19

You can get access to the list entries by a table.query and the clause ARRAY_AGG()

Array myArray = Table.query("SELECT ARRAY_AGG(Dimension) FROM ItemList1")[1][1];

this is shortest way to get the entries of a field of a list.

My first Approach is a bit longer. You do a Table.query for the List. Then you clone the result table into an array. Unfortunately the array is 2-dimensional. You append each result cell value in a one dimensional array by an iter( ..) - ation.

The table.query works only on global lists.

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Joerg Vogel commented · Oct 21, 2019 at 01:20 PM

Array myArrayAlt = Table.query("SELECT $2",
	rslt.length, 
	myArray.push(rslt.shift()[1])).clone()[1][1];

an alternative source code line

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stefano L commented · Oct 21, 2019 at 09:27 AM

@Jörg Vogel Thank you for your answer, I'm using a global list. How can I do it by script?

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