Patrick Hall wrote:
Hi Dave,
I have a list consisting of about 250 items, I need to know if a
particular item is in the list. I know this is better suited to a
dictionary but thats not the way it ended up ;-)
I could do a for loop to scan the list & compare each one, but I have a
suspission that
> You might want to try:
>
> x in list
Blush, I forgot about 'in'. And being in C it should be faster
than the sort/loop combination. Silly me... :-(
Alan G.
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> I have a list consisting of about 250 items, I need to know if a
> particular item is in the list. I know this is better suited to a
> dictionary but thats not the way it ended up ;-)
>
> I could do a for loop to scan the list & compare each one, but I
have a
> suspission that there is a better
Patrick Hall wrote:
Hi Dave,
I have a list consisting of about 250 items, I need to know if a
particular item is in the list. I know this is better suited to a
dictionary but thats not the way it ended up ;-)
I could do a for loop to scan the list & compare each one, but I have a
suspis
Hi Dave,
> I have a list consisting of about 250 items, I need to know if a
> particular item is in the list. I know this is better suited to a
> dictionary but thats not the way it ended up ;-)
> I could do a for loop to scan the list & compare each one, but I have a
> suspission that there is
You might want to try:
x in list
this will return true if, for example, list = [x,y,z,w], false if list
= [y,y,y,y]
Bill
Dave S wrote:
OK simple query,
I have a list consisting of about 250 items, I need to know if a
particular item is in the list. I know this is better suited to a
dictionary
OK simple query,
I have a list consisting of about 250 items, I need to know if a
particular item is in the list. I know this is better suited to a
dictionary but thats not the way it ended up ;-)
I could do a for loop to scan the list & compare each one, but I have a
suspission that there is
