index

Return the index of an item in an array.

Synopsis

indexnumber = index(somearray, someitem)

Description

index will return the index of the item someitem from the array somearray. -1 is returned if someitem isn’t in the somearray. someitem can be a float, string or pfield-handle data type, and somearray can be a mixture of any of these data types. index counts array items starting at 0.

Arguments

• somearray

  the array to be checked for someitem

• someitem

  The item to find the index for in somearray the first, or

RETURN VALUE

Returns -1 if sometime is not found in somearray, otherwise the index (starting at 0) of sometime will be returned/

Examples

After parsing he following scorefile segment:

   list = { 1, 2, "three", 4 }
   val = index(list, 2)

val will be set to 1.

See Also

Minc, len, stringify, type