Bastien Bouchard wrote:
>
> > Can someone tell me how to go about checking a list for a value,
> > and adding it only if it isn't in it yet?
>
> An easy way to find if a value is in the list is to use the getPos. In my
> stupid Lingo:
>
> valueexist=Getpos(mylist,myvalue) --this will return valueexist=0 if the
> value is'nt in the list
> if valueexist=0 then
> --add it to the list
> else
> nothing
I usually just:
if not getpos(list, value) then add(list, value)
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