How to resolve the error: ITEM expected input to be a number but got the string "12" instead in NetLogo?
Solution 1:
This looks like a huge workaround, but it works:
report reduce word a_list only reports a string, if a_list is a list with at least to entries. If it is for example [1], it would only report a number (I didn't know this before)
That's why I make sure that a string is created with word reduce word a_list ""
That string is then reported as a number with read-from-string
to-report reduce_list [a_list]
report read-from-string word reduce word a_list ""
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