Result is wrong when merge or create property list

Eggplant Functional
#1

Hi there,
Can you please help me, how to merge or create property list using to single list values. I was trying to merge or create property list using 2 single lists (testdataheader and testdatavalue) but actual result is differed with expected. Can you please help me.

For example: You can also set multiple properties at once, by specifying a list of keys:

set joe’s (height, weight) to ("5ft. 9in.", 143)

Script:

Put (: ) into currenttestdata
put file ScenarioFile as a list into MyDataFilePath
put line 1 of mydatafilepath into TestdataHeader
put testdataheader

put line 2 of mydatafilepath into testdatavalue
put testdatavalue

set currenttestdata's (TestdataHeader) to (testdataheader)
put currenttestdata

Expected Result:
TC_ID: TC2, TestData2: TestData2,…
Actual Result:
(“TC_ID, TestData2, TestData3, TestData4, TestData5, TestData6, TestData7, TestData8, TestData9, TestData10” : “TC2, TestData2, TestData3, , TestData5, , TestData7, , TestData9,”)

#2

You are going to need to post your data files for us to determine what the issue could be. There doesn’t seem to be a problem with your syntax.

Also, you will want to make sure you are on the latest release of eggPlant. There have been some fixes to that syntax.

#3

You generally can’t read from a file and say “as a list” and get the list you expect. What that does is to make whatever is read from the file a single item in a list. If you want to be able to read a list from a file, it needs to be properly formatted and then you can apply the value() function to it to turn it back into a list. If you run this code:

put the standardFormat of (make:"Lotus", model:"Elan", color:"Red") into file "~/Temp/garage.txt"

The file contents will be:

{color:"Red", make:"Lotus", model:"Elan"}

If you then use the value() function on the contents of the file:

put value(file "~/Temp/garage.txt")

You will get your original list back as a property list.

The alternative is to iterate through the contents of the file, break apart the strings you read in, and manually recreate the list.