Merge topic 'list-join'

a58158727b list(): add `JOIN` sub-command

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !1846

3 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Help/command/list.rst b/Help/command/list.rst
index e6a7069..3c092bd 100644
--- a/Help/command/list.rst
+++ b/Help/command/list.rst
@@ -54,6 +54,17 @@ GET
 
 Returns the list of elements specified by indices from the list.
 
+JOIN
+""""
+
+::
+
+  list(JOIN <list> <glue> <output variable>)
+
+Returns a string joining all list's elements using the glue string.
+To join multiple strings, which are not part of a list, use ``JOIN`` operator
+from :command:`string` command.
+
 Search
 ^^^^^^
 
diff --git a/Help/command/string.rst b/Help/command/string.rst
index cd94bb4..bb07d29 100644
--- a/Help/command/string.rst
+++ b/Help/command/string.rst
@@ -161,6 +161,10 @@ JOIN
 Join all the input arguments together using the glue
 string and store the result in the named output variable.
 
+To join list's elements, use preferably the ``JOIN`` operator
+from :command:`list` command. This allows for the elements to have
+special characters like ``;`` in them.
+
 TOLOWER
 """""""
 
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/list-join.rst b/Help/release/dev/list-join.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0756b60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Help/release/dev/list-join.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+list-join
+---------
+
+* The :command:`list` command learned a ``JOIN`` sub-command
+  to concatenate list's elements separated by a glue string.