is there a way to create a function to look like this

doSomething{
  "a"
  "b"
  "c"
}

and i can read the input as an list or array of items?

perhaps

fun doSomething(vararg values:String)

assuming you really want a lambda/builder kinda deal, I think the closest you can get is defining

operator fun unaryPlus

on your builder object

vararg

makes the parameter optionally an array of the defined type. Not to say that it's made optional. But you can include

"s"

or an

arrayOf["s","e","c"...]

that’d look like

doSomething {
  +"a"
  +"b"
  +"c"
}

i was looking for a way the return or new line means a new item/input

that’s not really how Kotlin’s grammar works for the most part. There are some proposals for comma omission in certain contexts, but nothing’s been formally accepted or announced yet afaik

Ok thanks, ill give it another try if there is a work around this somehow

a workaround? what are you even trying to do?

likely make a DSL without the noise of commas or + operators

I was trying to achieve a function you pass to all the dependencies in gradle as strings and it will convert them into dependencies

seems like vararg Strings would be sensible there