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Does anyone know a fast way to determine whether an element of a
dynamic array does NOT exist? IsAssigned and Not IsAssigned are not
enough I think, because no difference is made between the presence
of an element and the contents of the element. Also, combinations with
isblank etc. don't work. They result in a cancel/debug BECAUSE the
element does not exist. Only thing I think of is a FOR-loop over the
array.

Thanks,

Jan Theo

Quote:(Jan Theo Bakker) writes:

A combination in the right order should work for you. I'm not sure if
you've given enough info but try:

IF NOT ISASSIGNED(myArray["SomethingHere"]) OR
        ISBLANK(myArray["SomethingHere"]) THEN
   ..........;Code here if dynarray is not assigned or is blank
ENDIF

Does this not work for you?

Can* Corporation

Quote:(Jan Theo Bakker) writes:
>Does anyone know a fast way to determine whether an element of a
>dynamic array does NOT exist? IsAssigned and Not IsAssigned are not
>enough I think, because no difference is made between the presence
>of an element and the contents of the element. Also, combinations with
>isblank etc. don't work. They result in a cancel/debug BECAUSE the
>element does not exist. Only thing I think of is a FOR-loop over the
>array.

The isassigned function is *exactly* the way to do it, as in
isassigned(dynarray["tag"]). This works because there is no way to create
a dynarray element without also assigning it a value, so the problem you
speak of does not exist.

--Aaron

Quote:(Jan Theo Bakker) writes:

Does anyone know a fast way to determine whether an element of a
dynamic array does NOT exist? IsAssigned and Not IsAssigned are not
enough I think, because no difference is made between the presence
of an element and the contents of the element. Also, combinations with
isblank etc. don't work. They result in a cancel/debug BECAUSE the
element does not exist. Only thing I think of is a FOR-loop over the
array.
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ISASSIGNED & ISBLANK are it, but can be used effectively.  ISASSIGNED will
return false if the element has not been assigned at all (does not exist),
but will return True if the element exists but is blank.  ISBLANK can then
be used to determine the status of its contents -- I do it all the time.
So you might use:

  IF ISASSIGNED(X["This One"]) AND NOT ISBLANK(X["This One"])
     THEN DO_THIS_THING
  ELSE
     IF ISASSIGNED(X["This One"])
         THEN DO_THAT_THING
  ENDIF

DR