Re: [Tutor] How to find a substring within a list of items

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Querin
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Wayne Werner wrote: > > I don't know if either of these are the best options (they probably > aren't), but they should work, and for 3500 it will probably loop faster > than opening up excel. > > HTH, > Wayne > Thanks Wayne. This would definitely be faster than ge

Re: [Tutor] How to find a substring within a list of items

2011-01-13 Thread Alan Gauld
"Richard Querin" wrote I have an object that contains about 3500 list items, each list containing various data, some strings and some floats, like so: ['D', 123.4,'This is a project description', 'type', 52.1,'title'] What is the easiest way to search this list for a given string? Is th

Re: [Tutor] How to find a substring within a list of items

2011-01-13 Thread Wayne Werner
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Richard Querin wrote: > I have an object that contains about 3500 list items, each list containing > various data, some strings and some floats, like so: > > ['D', 123.4,'This is a project description', 'type', 52.1,'title'] > > What is the easiest way to search

[Tutor] How to find a substring within a list of items

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Querin
I have an object that contains about 3500 list items, each list containing various data, some strings and some floats, like so: ['D', 123.4,'This is a project description', 'type', 52.1,'title'] What is the easiest way to search this list for a given string? So I want to find out if this list con