Question

VIM: Does anyone know how to put a string from an input dialog in a list?

p.e.:

the string “3,5,12,15”

to:

list item[1] = 3
list item[2] = 5
list item[3] = 12
etc.

and how can I know how many list items there are?

Answer 1

From :h E714

:let l = len(list)              " number of items in list
:let list = split("a b c")      " create list from items in a string

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In your case,

let string = "3,5,7,19"
let list = split(string, ",")
echo len(list)