Index: sources/utility/format.cpp
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diff -u -r27cc308ff5113a9386899d3c8f8b29962a8498e1 -r75219a6e89b20f405aad0c12c5aed5937118b2ad
--- sources/utility/format.cpp	(.../format.cpp)	(revision 27cc308ff5113a9386899d3c8f8b29962a8498e1)
+++ sources/utility/format.cpp	(.../format.cpp)	(revision 75219a6e89b20f405aad0c12c5aed5937118b2ad)
@@ -206,3 +206,19 @@
     QDateTime   dateTime = QDateTime::fromSecsSinceEpoch(vEpoch);
     return dateTime.toString(vFormat);
 }
+
+/*!
+ * \brief Format::fromVariantList
+ * \param vData - QVariantList data to be converted to the QSteingList
+ * \return the QStringList conversion of the vData
+ */
+QStringList Format::fromVariantList(const QVariantList &vData)
+{
+    QStringList data;
+
+    // convert the data to string list
+    for (auto datum : vData) {
+        data += datum.toString();
+    }
+    return data;
+}