Collections Index Number and Idnetifier

[niceguymattx]

Does anybody know of how to return a collection items index number, or identifier?

I just cant seem to work it out!

Matt

 

[GlennUK]

What about .Index ?

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[SkipVought]

Hi,

What are you trying to do? There are usually 99 different ways to accomplish something -- some better than others.

Skip,

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[PHV]

Perhaps a Scripting.Dictionary object ?
Any chance you could elaborate a little more about WHAT YOU WANT TO DO ?

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[niceguymattx]

Without going into too much detail!

I have a collection of values, indexed by a string identifier such as "2005 01" (year week). These are populated into the collection at an earlier point in the program.

they are populated like this: collection.add (value,"yr week")

If I am looking for a particular week i can retrieve it using: x = collection("yr week")

At points I loop through the collection using a for each loop eg:

for each x in collection
'this bit here!!!!
next

there is a need for me to know what yr week the current item (or x) is at some points in that loop.

I know that I could use a different type of loop, or rather than just adding values to the collection, add an object, but I was wondering if i was missing something obvious. Like some command that would retrieve either the index string I entered for each value, or the natural index value that exists in all collections.

Sorry if I didn't explain myself fully enough.

Matt