[rebol [title: "funny search"]

 MyStructure: [
  is-is? ["US" ["USA" "English" "Spanish"]]
  is-is? ["DE" ["Germany" "German"]]
  is-it? ["NZ" ["New Zealand" "English"]]
 ]

 look-for: "DE"
 found: none
 is-it?: func [block] [
  if look-for = first block [
   found: block
  ]
 ]
 do MyStructure
 ? found
 ;-)
] 

>I've been doing the following with a similar problem:
>
>
>MyStructure: [
>           ["US" ["USA" "English" "Spanish"]  ]
>           ["DE"  ["Germany" "German"]  ]
>           ["NZ" ["New Zealand" "English"]  ]
>            ]
>
>search: func [search-term [string!]][
> foreach item MyStructure [
>  if find first item search-term [
>  return second item
>  ]
> ]
>]
>
>Example:
>
>  >> search "NZ"
>== ["New Zealand" "English"]
>
>>> search "DE"
>== ["Germany" "German"]
>
>I hope this is what you were asking for.
>
>--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Can you guys help me on this one?
>> 
>> I've got a structure like this:
>> 
>> MyStructure: [ [key1 data1]   [key2 data2]  [key3
>> data3]  ... ]
>> 
>> where each Key is a single string, but the Data is
>> another block.
>> 
>> Example:
>> 
>> MyStructure: [
>>           ["US" ["USA" "English" "Spanish"]  ]
>>           ["DE"  ["Germany" "German"]  ]
>>           ["NZ" ["New Zealand" "English"]  ]      
>>            ]
>> 
>> 
>> I can't find any way to use Find to find me a given
>> key:
>> 
>> >> find MyStructure "US"
>> == none
>> >> find MyStructure ["US"]
>> == none
>> 
>> Is there something I can do with Find?
>> 
>> I don't want to change the structure to
>> 
>> MyStructure:  [ key1 [data1]   key2 [data2]   key3
>> [data3]  ... ]
>> 
>> which is Find-able, but isn't SORT-able,--or at
>> least not by me.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Colin.
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