> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke > Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: position of item in a list > > You still haven't told us how these strings are initially stored ! > > is it : > > bigstring = ["A", "B", "C", "D"] > > or a Collection object containing string items? >
It's a long story... I am writing a program to change user access permissions to a 3rd party product we use here, because their interface is a total kludge-o-matic. I have a form method that has a user selected action choice being passed in (VIEW, ADD, EDIT, etc.). Based on this choice I was using a CASE statement to determine a starting position in a string to change. The string I am changing is a concatinated string of all the user choices i.e. "YNYY" means user permissions are VIEW, can't ADD, EDIT, DELETE, etc.) My case statement merely calculated which of the positions in the string I wanted to change: lcAcclvl = "YNYY" DO CASE CASE lcOption = "VIEW" lnPosition = 1 CASE lcOption = "ADD" lnPosition = 2 CASE lcOption = "DELETE" lnPosition = 3 ...... lcNewString = stuff( lcAcclvl, lnPosition, 1, 'T') Now if I wanted to, I could do it this way: lcString = ["VIEW","ADD","EDIT","DELETE","APPROVAL","CHNG_STAT"] Alines(laStrings, lcString,0,",") lnIndex = Ascan(laStrings, [lcUserChoice]) lcNewString = stuff( lcAcclvl, lnIndex, 1, 'T') 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.
