Horrid: information about lists and property lists

[proggie]

HI HORRID.

Can you please tell where I can get information about lists and property lists?

Thanks very much
Nikita.

 

[Horrid]

Best place is to use the lingo dictionary. The electronic one in help is probably the quickest to look at.

I will be putting a faq togeather on the basics as soon as I get some time so check back occasionally.

Basic commands for a list are"
to define a list
variable = []
to add an item
add[variable, value]

to delete an item
deleteat[varialbe, number to delete]

to get an item
getat[variable, number to get]

to find the position of a specific item
getone[variable, value to find] --will return 0 if not found

to get the last item
getlast[variable]

to delete the last
deletelast[variable]

property list are more complex. Get a grasp of normat lists before you try propery lists. A basic rundown is that a property list contains a list of containers that each have data within them.
eg [score:"10",player:"fred"] in this example the list contains the users score and name, you could get the value by saying getaprop(variable, score), you can also use dot syntax.

hope this is a help