Call a custom function that does what you asking and that returns the 
appropriate index value.

David J.

On May 15, 2011, at 9:43, Daron Ryan <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a table with just 2 columns, 1 for a character array and one an 
> integer index. I need to process a string such as to find out the index for 
> it in the table if it is already there or insert it and then find out it's 
> index which is auto generated otherwise. Is there a way to do this in a 
> single step?
> 
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