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I want to:
let s:asciiart = ["", "", s:hardinclude(system("command params")), "", ""]
where command returns one string with:
"art-line-1", "art-line-2", "art-line-3"
so I end up with:
s:asciiart == ["", "", "art-line-1", "art-line-2", "art-line-3", "", ""]
Is there a way to make a working s:hardinclude()? How? Thanks.
Version 8.2.935 introduced a flatten() function (and version 8.2.937 fixed a bug in that function). With this function you can also write
let s:asciiart = flatten(["", "", systemlist("command params"), "", ""])
to insert the elements of the inner list into the outer list.
If you can guarantee your original format, you can use
split(system(command), ',\s\+')
But CSV (as in the self-answer) is probably cleanest.
Alternatively, have the outputs on their own lines and use
systemlist(command)
Vim unfortunately doesn't have an "explode" operator that I am aware of.
As an alternative, you can use :h eval(). For example:
let s:asciiart = eval('["", "", ' . trim(system("command args")) . ', "", ""]')
Note that system() output includes extra newline(s), so you have to deal with it.
Although it would still be fine to find out if a "hard-include" would be possible, I answer my own question:
I have changed my command to return a CSV, as:
art-1,art-2,art3
then, from the vim script:
let s:asciiart = ["", ""] + split(system("command args"), ",") + ["", ""]
...well, solved the problem, but did not exactly answered the question. Not sure if should be marked as solved.
systemlist() to get the result, that already does the split for you as well. Plus, if these are lines of asciiart, then printing it in multiple lines means it will actually look like asciiart already, no? 😁
systemlist()? To be honest, your question is unclear—you've not explained how (algorithmically, not programatically, of course) to get from your input to your output...eval()is the one you were looking for. But note that's usually a bad idea, generating a Vim snippet from an external command and evaluating it as Vimscript. Instead, generate your output in a more general format (multiple lines, or comma-separated, or tab-separated) and parse that simple format in your Vim code.