Hey thanks alot! let me work on this then.
Kind regards
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:40:04 AM UTC-4, Maurice Waka wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the input. Yes it is part of a web2py app game.
>> I have about 1000 rows, but when a user types in the keyword(stored in
>> any of the rows) i should get a boolean answer which for now displays the
>> row(different code on this)
>>
>
> OK, but how are the rows stored in SQLite? Are they just strings, like
> "['123', '1234', '12345', ]"? If so, you can do a query searching for the
> string "'[keyword]'," within each row to return rows with a matching
> keyword. Again, I would recommend using the DAL with a list:string field:
>
> db.define_table('keywords',
> Field('x', 'list:string'))
>
> This allows you to insert and extract actual Python lists from the field,
> though the lists will be stored in the database as a string in the form
> "|item1|item2|item3|". So, to find rows that match a keyword, you would
> just do:
>
> keyword = '123' # in reality, this is obtained via user input
> match_row = db(db.keywords.x.contains('|%s|' % keyword)).select().first()
>
> Your boolean test would then simply be "if match_row:". The list of
> keywords in the matching row would be in match_row.x, which would be an
> actual Python list rather than a string representation of a list.
>
> Anthony
>
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