Mastering Vim

Lists

Vim also supports more complex data structures, such as lists and dictionaries. Here's an example of a list:

let animals = ['cat', 'dog', 'parrot']

Operations to modify lists are similar to the ones in Python. Let's take a look at some common operations.

You can get elements by index using the [n] syntax. Here are some examples:

let cat = animals[0]      " get first elementlet dog = animals[1]      " get second elementlet parrot = animals[-1]  " get last element

Slices work in a similar way to Python, for instance:

let slice = animals[1:]

The value of slice would be ['dog, 'parrot']. The main difference from Python is that the end of the range is inclusive:

let slice = animals[0:1]

The value of slice would be ['cat', 'dog'].

To append to the list, ...