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deleteAt
Syntax
list.deleteAt(
number
)
deleteAt
list
,
number
Description
List command; deletes the item in the position specified by number
from the linear or property list specified by list
.
The deleteAt
command checks whether an item is in a list; if you try to delete an object that isn't in the list, Director displays an alert.
Example
This statement deletes the second item from the list named designers, which contains [gee, kayne, ohashi]:
designers = ["gee", "kayne", "ohashi"] designers.deleteAt(2)
The result is the list ["gee", "ohashi"]
.
This handler checks whether an object is in a list before attempting to delete it:
on myDeleteAt theList, theIndex if theList.count < theIndex then beep else theList.deleteAt(theIndex) end if end
See also
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