Will listgroup give me an array of all the active articles saving me the trouble of weeding out the bad articles?

If that's what it does (haven't looked or tried), and then what you're going to do is iterate over that list, I'd suggest staying with the interface I used in my program.

In general, I prefer getting an iterator over getting an iterated list, because there's more overhead in having the called subroutine prepare the list, just to do what you could have done in the first place.

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