BTW has anyone a good method as to change the property of a property list, like in 
[#john:100, #kurt:200]
Now change #john to #Bill

John

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> Emne: Re: <lingo-l> Help with Lists
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> 
> From: "Thomas Yeh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> > So maybe instead of stepping through the list ourseleves, 

> we can just let
> > the underlying C or Assembly code does it for us, as in 
> following handler.
> >
> > on addItem theList, theItem
> >   if not ilk(theList, #linearList) then exit
> >   itemPos = theList.getPos(theItem)
> >   if itemPos then return itemPos
> >   theList.add(theItem)
> >   return theList.getPos(theItem)
> > end
> 
> Thank you,  Thomas.
> 
> Yes. You are right when you said that it is case sensitive
> as in the following example...
> 
> -- Welcome to Director --
> put gList
> -- ["Earth", "Jupiter", "Mars", "Venus", "Saturn"]
> 
> put getPos(gList, "Earth")
> -- 1
> 
> put getPos(gList, "EARTH")
> -- 0
> 
> put getPos(gList, "earth")
> -- 0
> 
> -- Your script at work.
> addItem(gList, "earth")
> 
> put gList
> -- ["Earth", "Jupiter", "Mars", "Venus", "Saturn", "earth"]
> 
> addItem(gList, "EARTH")
> 
> put gList
> -- ["Earth", "Jupiter", "Mars", "Venus", "Saturn", "earth", "EARTH"]
> 
> 
> Maybe going through each item on the list is till the safest one.
> 
> Thanks again for your help.
> 
> 
> John Erazo
> 
> 
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