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ListPopulator

Populates a new list from a series of attributes. The attributes to be used are specified by the prefix parameter. Each attribute's index in the list is specified by everything in the attribute name after the prefix.

The geometry of each feature entering the transformer is not changed.

For example, if the prefix parameter is set to "bob," and a feature entered the transformer with the following attributes:

  bob0 = 'cat'

  bob1 = 'dog'

  bob2 = 'rooster'

  anotherAttr = 'carrot'

then, presuming that the list name specified was "somelist," the feature would now look like:

  bob0 = 'cat'

  bob1 = 'dog'

  bob2 = 'rooster'

  anotherAttr = 'carrot'

  somelist{0} = 'cat'

  somelist{1} = 'dog'

  somelist{2} = 'rooster'

Note that in order for the resulting list to be useful, the source attributes must begin at index 0, and count up without any gaps. For instance, if in the example above, only the bob2 attribute was available, the resulting list would not be valid.

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