> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grigore Dolghin > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: position of item in a list > > There is no built-in function to do that. You should go for ALINES(): > > lcString = ["A","B","C","D"] > Alines(laStrings, lcString,0,",") > lnIndex = Ascan(laStrings, ["C"]) > ? lnIndex > > Note: I considered the quotes being part of the string in the > above example.
Thanks Grigore - this gives me what I needed. I was trying to avoid a lengthy CASE statement for readability purposes and thought I could sneek in a one-liner function to determine which value I was looking at. Could have sworn there was something built-in for this sort of thing, but like I said I'm rather rusty at VFP these days... Thanks again, Matt Jarvis Programmer/DBA King | Retail Solutions Electronic Privacy Notice. This e-mail, and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws, and is also confidential and proprietary in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you are legally prohibited from retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing this information in any manner. Instead, please reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error, and then immediately delete it. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
