At 11:06 AM -0500 6/12/02, you wrote:
>At 10:39 -0500 06/12/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>Ok so I've got a few nested proplists where the property is spelled wrong.
>>I can get the property via gAreas[1].getPropAt(1), but there's no
>>setPropat?
>
>That's correct. It's a lack that I've felt a few times myself. To 
>work around it you basically have to rebuild the list with corrected 
>prop values.
>
>If you wanted to I suppose you could convert the list to a string, 
>then correct the spelling of the flooey term, then pass the list 
>through a value filter again. I don't know if that would be faster 
>or not but it might be the way I'd go about doing it.

at least an order of magnitude slower.

please repeat after me ...
"text conversion of lists is a very, very  slow operation"

Don't do it unless you really have to.

There are several Xtras whose primary purpose is to avoid the sludge 
inherent in this operation.

-Buzz

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