Extracting all elements from listbox

tstcompname_list = nil
notDone = t
pos = 0
while( notDone
    tmpStr = axlFormListGetItem( yerform "yer_list" pos)
    if( tmpStr then
        tstcompname_list = cons( tmpStr tstcompname_list)
    else
        notDone = nil
    );end-if
    pos++
);end-while 

HTH,

Chris Walters

local Cadence guru

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Thanks, Chris.. it works great and helps me lots. Want to ask as I'm writing the results to a text file using fprintf (form " %L \n" tmpStr) function, it ended up something like this :

"test1"
"test2"
"test3"
nil

How do I remove the "" signs and the last word nil as i just want the result to show :

test1
test2
test3

I've tried playing around with some of the values but can't seem to solve it... Thanks in advance.

Hi,

First of all, try replacing your %L with %s - this will take care of the "" signs

%s prints string whereas %L is list.

The nil I'm not sure about, maybe running through a loop once to much? If not, post your code and it will be easier to figure out what's going wrong.

Basically my codes are (thanks to Chris) : -

        name_list = nil
        notDone = t
        pos = 0
        while( notDone          
             tempStr = axlFormListGetItem(TestForm "Form_lst_listbox" pos)
        if(tmpStr then name_list = cons(tempStr name_list)
            else notDone = nil);end-if   
        fprintf(TestForm " %L \n" tempStr)       
        pos++);end-while 

 I have to use the %L, if using %s will return an error below and no results...

E- *Error* fprintf/sprintf: format spec. incompatible with data - nil

 Using the %L will give the results but with the "" and nil.