Working with lists

Considering the numerous functions designed to work with lists, their significance is evident. You can think of lists containing primitive values as similar to one-dimensional arrays: a flexible structure that allows for the easy storage and manipulation of data, including adding, removing, and modifying items. This section focuses solely on working with lists; lists that contain other value types, like records or tables, are covered later on in this chapter.

Transforming a list

Every element within a list can be referred to by its positional index – a number that reflects its zero-based position within a list. The first element has a positional index of 0, followed by the second element with an index of 1, and so on. A method called item access provides access to each list element by using this zero-based index position within a set of curly brackets, { }.

List.Transform

List.Transform provides a wealth of possibilities. Much like the name...