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Starting from the two fields you describe:

You can obtain the text of either field through its ".text" attribute. The "split" operator breaks a string on the right at instances of the string on the left and produces a list. Splitting one string on spaces gets us part of the way to what you're asking for. We can then use the comma operator to join a pair of lists.

" " split field1.text

The best way to experiment with this sort of thing is to use The Listener. Ask a "question", get an answer:

Another approach for gathering space-separated words from several fields would be to use an "each" loop:

Does that help point you in the right direction?

drewdiver302 days ago(+1)

This does! When looking at the docs I guess this made me think "split" and such were tied specifically to tables. But now I'm starting to wrap my head around this.

Internet Janitor301 days ago (1 edit)

In general, for string manipulation the main tools Lil provides are:

drop, take, split, and parse for cutting strings apart into smaller pieces
fuse and format for gluing pieces together to make strings
like, in, <, >, and = for comparing and searching strings

...and a few of the more complicated utility functions functions in rtext do also apply to plain strings.

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