Bastiaan Boertien wrote on Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:54:41 +0100:
>Hi List
>
>Is there a way to get the offset of an item from a list as number
>
>because we can do it with a string like this
>set theString to "658947123"
>
>offset of "4" in theString
>
>I know how to do it with a repeat but that's to slow
It depends what's in the list. If it's just integers and the one you want
is likely to be in the first 40 or so, a repeat compares quite favourably
with anything else for speed.
on getIndex(theItem, theList)
script o
property l : theList
end script
if theList contains {theItem} then
set i to 1
repeat until (item i of o's l is theItem)
set i to i + 1
end repeat
else
set i to 0
end if
return i
end getIndex
This is also a safe option if the list contains items that can't be
coerced to string or which might cause confusion if they were.
Otherwise, there's this slightly faster version of the handler jj posted
earlier:
on IndexOfItem(theItem, theList)
set astid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
set theList to {"", theList, ""} as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"", theItem, ""} as string
set i to (count paragraphs of text item 1 of theList) mod (count
paragraphs of theList)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid
return i
end IndexOfItem
NG
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