The generic function search-for-item
returns the index of an item in a collection.
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search-for-item collection item
collection⇩ |
A collection. |
item⇩ |
A Lisp object. |
Returns the index of item in collection, using its collection-test-function to determine equality, and returns nil
if no match is found.
The search is done by sequentially comparing item to each item in collection using the collection's test-function, which is cl:eq by default.
search-for-item
is the counterpart function to get-collection-item which given an index, finds the appropriate item.
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