In Yahoo! Pipes how can I return a single value from a loop that's built with values from every item?

Question

For example, I have a list of items and each item has a name. I want to build a single string that contains a comma-separated list of all the names. In most programming languages, I would loop over the items and append to a value outside the list/array. But, I can't figure out any combination of Yahoo! Pipes modules to do it. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I also find nothing relevant from Google.

How do I append loop item values to a single value outside the loop?

Or how can I return a single value from a loop that's built with values from every item?

Or what is the correct method to accomplish this in Pipes if it's neither of those?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '11 at 01:11

2

The best method I've come up with based on help from the Yahoo! group, is to use an Item Builder (item.string = default) --> Loop ( assign all to item.string ). Using another pipe inside the Loop to provide the values to concatenate was also very helpful.

answered Sep 19 '11 at 01:11

mghicks

1,144
6
16

Could you be more explicit about which modules you used, and how they were set up? – Bennett McElwee Dec 18 '13 at 10:27
I can't as I haven't used Pipes recently enough to remember the details. I recommend YQL instead. – mghicks Feb 28 '14 at 10:43

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 21 '11 at 09:36

Unfortunately the modules available with Yahoo Pipes alone cannot perform the task you are aiming at. The only solution available currently is to use "web service" module to call an externally hosted script (say in PHP)... the entire pipe content will be sent to the script as POST field "data". You can code the script such that it loops through all items to add the string to a single string and return it after processing.

In Yahoo! Pipes how can I return a single value from a loop that's built with values from every item?

2 Answers2

Linked