On 17/06/2013, at 10:53 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Pretty much, yes. I didn't ask my original question correctly. I want to see > if a particular value is contained in any element at a certain level without > looping through to check each one. Sort of like we can say "if tString > contains "dog" then..." > > I didn't think we could but was sort of hoping, or wondering if anyone had a > good, quick way to do it. I vaguely recall Trevor mentioning something about > "the elements of an array" but I can't remember what it was.
So you want: if there is an element "dog" in tAnimals["mammals"] then Seems like a handy feature Jacque... you really will need to start playing with the engine one of these days ;-) -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke application development for vertical markets mergExt - There's an external for that! _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode