Re: Determining item number matching "x" in a list
Re: Determining item number matching "x" in a list
- Subject: Re: Determining item number matching "x" in a list
- From: Ivan Andrus <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:12:42 -0700
At 03:10 PM 3/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
I wonder if there is some trivial way to do this without writing a repeat
loop that cycles through every value of the list looking for a match:
I have a list, theList = {"a","b","c","etc"} and I want to know the item
number of the item that matches a variable x. I need something like
"get the item number of x in theList"
which returns a if x = "a", 2 if x = "b" etc.
Did I miss a page in the manual :-)
If all the items are of the same length then you can coerce it to text and
use offset. Other than that I don't know how to do it easily.
offset of "b" in (theList as text) / length_of_each_item
Granted this won't work in most cases, but you never know when it might.
HTH,
Ivan
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