Get slice index?

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hi all,

maybe a beginner’s question:

is there a way to check out the SLICE INDEX of a specific value in a spread of values automatically? i think of a kind of recursive “get slice” - node…

thanks for some hints how to solve this,

s-man

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ha

have a look at @elektromeier
he made a module which exactly does what you want

–> GetIndex (Spreads).v4p

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i´d think the proper term would be property list or dictionary (see http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/dictionary.html, and we´d yet failed to implement a clean one right way of doing this. several options exist:

for strings, the Sift node can help a lot.
for values a Select, = and I combination node would help you: Create a spread of integers with I, use = to compare your incoming value with the spread. Use select to retrieve a spread which contains only the slices where the = returns 1. depending on what you want to do, when no matches or multiple matches occur, use car, cdr, resample or bounds to fine tune the results.

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meanwhile Sift (Value) makes this module obsolete.

hey, it’s a thread of 2004…

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and there i was, thinking: oooh, someone asking about spreads, let’s get to it! :D