This is how the current documentation is:
I disagree that this is broken or a bug. I think you are just misunderstanding how it should work.
Maybe having some additional examples in the documentation would be helpful.
We just dicussed this all in another topic: Make list from text does not work
I don’t think we need two topics about this. Hopefully someone from the staff can merge these two.
Sorry I should have filed it in Thunkable GitHub where we make feature requests and modification to documents. My bad hope someone can merge it. Sorry for the confusion.
this is not a bug. the delimiter you provide is what thunkable uses to split the original string.
hence “1,2,3,4,5” with delimiter “,” will split the text into [1,2,3,4,5] with length of 5.
doing “1$2$3$4$5” with delimiter “$” will do the same thing.
whatever you specify as the delimiter is the character that is in BETWEEN the characters.
thus when you want to split “12345” into a list - there is really NO delimiter between the letters- aka there is a null separator (ie.no separator) between the letters - hence you supply a delimiter of “”(this is not a space, it’s a text character with length 0, in other words a null character.
thus if you say “12345” with delimiter “”, you will also get list [1,2,3,4,5] of length 5.
there is no bug.
Ok ok ok Manyone I get you loud and clear. In India they would call me Tubelight. It means it blinks 3-4 times before it is fully lit!! 
“1,2,3,4,5” a string with delimiter “,”. The call converts it to a List[1,2,3,4,5] with length of 5. The new entity is a LIST with “,” as delimiters.
Thunkable has used the world over accepted “,” as the delimiter.
Hence using the “make list from” call, on a text string “12345” and giving no delimiter (NOT a NULL) will create the very same List[1,2,3,4,5]. Got it and I am glad I did not file a bug report. Putting [ … ] and giving the $ example got me to fully grasp it. 1001 thanks to you Manyone.
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