firstItem >>-firstItem---------------------------------------------------><
Returns the first item in the array or the Nil object if the array is empty. Array class - firstItem method musketeers=.array~of("Porthos","Athos","Aramis"") /* Creates array MUSKETEERS */ item=musketeers~firstItem /* Gives first item in array */ /* (Assigns "Porthos" to item) */ Returns the index of the first item in the array or the Nil object if the array is empty. For multi-dimension arrays, the index is returned as an array of index values. Array class - firstItem method a = .array~of("Mike", "Rick", "Fred", "Rick") say a~first -- says: 1 a = .array~of(,"Mike", "Rick") say a~first -- says: 2 |