String Multiline List

String Multiline List is String Multiline with one extra output that quietly unlocks a lot: not only does it collapse your multiline text into a single space-joined string, it also gives you the list of individual lines. One box, two outputs, and the list version is the part that makes it more than a convenience.

Think about what a list of strings gets you that a single blob doesn't. You can iterate - feed each line to something that processes one string at a time, index into it, or use it as a batch of options. That's the difference between "here's a paragraph" and "here's a list of 12 distinct items you can handle one by one." For tag lists, caption batches, or a file's worth of lines you've pasted in, that's genuinely useful rather than merely tidy.

How it works

Same core as String Multiline: the string widget holds the multiline content, and an optional input_string input can prepend a wired-in value. The outputs are:

• string - all lines joined with spaces into one string (the prepended input first).
• string_list - the individual lines as a list of strings.

The string_list output is the one to remember. If you're ever building something per-line - a prompt per character, a caption per image, a batch of negative blocks - it saves you from having to split the string yourself in another node.

Where it fits

Use it anywhere you want both views of the same text: the readable joined version for a CLIP encoder, plus the structural version for logic. It also works well as a lightweight way to define a small list in the graph - paste your items, one per line, and the string_list output behaves like any other list you'd get from a dedicated list node.

Installing it

Ships in ComfyUI_Eclipse:

git clone https://github.com/r-vage/ComfyUI_Eclipse custom_nodes/ComfyUI_Eclipse

Or ComfyUI Manager → search "ComfyUI_Eclipse" → install and restart. No models, no extra dependencies.

Gotchas

The same line-collapse behavior as String Multiline applies to the joined output, so don't expect preserved formatting there. And note that the list is built from the widget content at execute time - if you're driving it from input_string, the prepended value lands in the joined string; it's the multiline box that defines the list. One family note: workflows from before Eclipse v4.0.0 referencing RvTools-era node IDs need the migration tool; new graphs load clean.