[Tutor] Invoking a procedure with an uknown number of arguments...

[Kent Johnson]

Lars Erik Gullerud wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I have the following problem; I have a list with an unknown number of 
> strings, like so:
> 
>    MyList = ['string1', 'string2', 'string3'..'stringN']
> 
> Now, I need to call a procedure from a 3rd party module (which is just a 
> wrapper around a C library), where each of these strings must be passed 
> as a separate argument, i.e.
> 
>    MyProc(arg1, arg2, arg3..argN)
> 
> So, the question is basically, how can I invoke this procedure and pass 
> each of these list elements as separate arguments, when I don't know in 
> advance how many elements there will be?

MyProc(*MyList)

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Kent