[REBOL] Re: Searching in "table"
From: carl::cybercraft::co::nz at: 5-Sep-2007 15:41
On Tuesday, 4-September-2007 at 20:27:12 Kai Peters wrote,
>That was a horrible read - let me try this again:
>
>I am struggling with this problem:
>
>Given the "table"
>
>table: [
> [ 3 "Tim" "Peterson" 2 ]
> [ 1 "John" "Smith" 3 ]
> [ 2 "Jeff" "Brown" 1 ]
>]
>
>How can I search for the record whose first value is 1 (John Smith)
>and return its index in the table (2 in this case) ?
>
>The search criterion is only unique in the fist value of each "record".
This would be one way...
forall table [if table/1/1 = 1 [print index? table]]
But I agree with MAx that you could make it simplier by changing the the way the table's
organized.
-- Carl Read.
