Joining multiple records in a single string

[Nicky Williams]

Hi,
I wonder if someone might be able to help me. We own a pub and I am trying to collate all our recipes. Among other things, I want to print labels that we stick on to any pre-made items, but would like to include all the ingredients. I've got a table for the menu and then a related table that lists all the ingredients. Is there a way of bringing the list of ingredients into one single string like you see on food packaging. The labels can't be too big so listing them a line each would be too much.
Thank you!

[bcooney]

If recipes - < ingredients ( recipes are related to ingredients, one to many), then you can use List () to gather the related ingredients names. Then you can wrap that in Substitute() to replace the carriage returns with commas. 

 

Substitute (     List ( "apple" , "banana" , "pear" ) ;     ¶ , ", "  )

 

you'd have: Substitute ( List ( relatedIngredients::name) ; ¶ , ", "  )