At 09:53 -0500 02/06/2002, Bill Numerick wrote:
>Hey All,
>
>Can I use getAt or getOne to get the value inside of a list that's
>inside of another list?
>
>Example
>
>[[#name:Bob], [#name:Heather]]
>
>and lets say I wanted to find a name with the value of Heather using
>getAt/getOne can I do that? If so how? :)
Try this:
on FindSubList lMainList, yHandle, sTarget
repeat with lSubItem in lMainList
if lSubItem[yHandle] = sTarget then
return lSubItem
end if
end repeat
return [ #null, "Not found" ]
END FindSubList
You'd use it like this:
lFoundList = FindSubList ( [[#name:"Bob"], [#name:"Heather"]],
#name, "Heather" )
It would return the list containing that name. If the item wasn't
found you'd get the final #null return instead.
There are variations; for instance if you don't know the property
handle associated with your variable, or have multiple items in the
sublist, you can just not pass the handle variable and do a test of
each item in the sublist.
Does that help, or have I just muddied the waters? ;)
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