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Re: What is up with the 'FIND' function?

• Posted by ZNorQ <znorq at holhaug.com> Mar 28, 2006
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Dang, sorry about that last post, pressed the button too early!

Anyway, Jules, I see your point. I know about the difference between
'c' and "c", but I didn't understand that it would make a difference
when my code problem arised. I see it now, though. In my example,
the FIND searches for a "c" (sequence format), but tries to match that
with each induvidual ATOM in zALPHA - which of course doesn't match.
(Hope I got it right, and didn't make an ass of myself. :))

Again, thanks to you and all for their feed backs.

Regards, Ken aka ZNorQ.

Jules Davy wrote:
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> This discrepancy arises because an atom is not equivalent to a one element
> sequence
> containing the same value. Therefore, to use your example, eRevision does not
> contain
> 'c', but "c" (because it has been declared as a sequence). If you declare
> eRevison
> as an atom then 
> 
> eFindResult = find(eRevision, zALPHA)
> 
> will return 3, as required.
> 
> Alternatively you could replace the "find" function with "match", this finds
> a 
> sequence as a SLICE of another sequence. So 
> 
> eFindResult = match(eRevision, zALPHA) 
> 
> will also return 3.
> 
> Not sure whether this has helped or made you more confused!