Non-auto-rearranging lists

ID:2089001
 
May 24 2016, 7:28 pm
(See the best response by FKI.)

Problem description:
Hopefully I'll have this figured out by the time I get a reply, but basically I'm looking for a concise way to remove an element from a list while preserving the location of all other elements of the list. As it stands now, if I remove an element from the list I'm working with, all other items move down 1 place
May 24 2016, 7:36 pm
Best response
What if you did something similar to this:

var/somelist[] = list("item1", "item2", "item3")
// removes list item #2 without causing the list to shift
somelist[somelist.Find("item2")] = null


May not be the most ideal method though.
May 24 2016, 7:43 pm
Yep, Find() is what you want. You need to get the index of the item in the list, and then set the value at that index to null.
May 24 2016, 8:04 pm
In response to Lummox JR
so for instance...

sampleList = list("1stGuy","2ndGuy","3rdGuy","4thGuy")

sampleList[2] = null


2ndGuy would be deleted and the positions of the other items in the list would be retained? Or do I HAVE to point to it with Find()?
May 24 2016, 8:07 pm
In response to SolarOblivion
All Find() does is return an index, so that would work too.
May 24 2016, 8:35 pm
If you know the index already, then you don't need Find(). If you don't know the index, that's when Find() is your friend.