Marty,
I don't know if it's the fastest way, but here's one way to do it. Pass with
function your tab-delimited list and what you are looking to find in fields 1,3
and 4 and it will return a list of the lines numbers that match. Hope it
helps...
function getTheMatches tList,findThis
set the itemDel to tab
put "" into foundList
put 0 into i
repeat for each line tLine in tList
add 1 to i
if item 1 of tLine = findThis then
if item 3 of tLine = findThis then
if item 4 of tLine = findThis then
put i & cr after foundList
end if
end if
end if
end repeat
delete last line of foundList
return foundList
end getTheMatches
> Let's say I have a tab delimited list with 4 items and I want to find a
> match to my search string, except I don't care what item 2 is - it could
> be a number, a word or be empty, but I want to find the occurrences
> where items 1, 3 & 4 match. What's the fastest way to do that?
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