Use .Find to get all elements that do NOT match the search properties
Hi all,
I'm trying to find a way to make my code less loopy and possibly improve the performance. I'm trying to take a list of items, get rid of the items that I'm not interested in, and keep the rest
Example items*:
Red Tomato
Orange Carrot
Red Strawberry
Green Lettuce
Red Cherry
...
I wan't to find all the fruit/veg that aren't red. I don't know how many fruit or vegetables there are that aren't red - this can vary - but I expect that the majority of the fruit/veg will be red. I can't go through all the colours that aren't red and find them one by one and add them, because I don't know which colours of fruit/veg there will be. I could find ALL the fruit/veg then loop through those objects and remove everything that's red - which is what I generally do now - but it seems a waste to return such a large amount of items if all I need to do is use a NOT filter, which will return two or three of the 50 items. Is there a way to do that ?
*Surnames removed to protect identities
Hi,
The below may appear to be not relevant for your real case because I don't know how color is determined, but as an idea you may consider using regular expressions for search parameters.
Sample pseudocode:
var objects = root.FindAllChildren(['Type', 'Color'], ['regexp: (vegetable)|(fruit)', 'regexp:^(red)'], depth);
That is SOO exactly what I was looking for, thanks ! :smileyvery-happy:
Syntax correction:
It's 'regexp:[^(red)]' - it was just missing the [] around the ^(red)
