[OpenSCAD] adding a string & list search() function

[Andrew Plumb]

On 2012-02-04, at 8:37 AM, Marius Kintel wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2012, at 05:27 AM, Andrew Plumb wrote:
>> 
>> Others are welcome to give it a try; I opened this "Issue" to make my request:  https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/81
>> 
> 
> Pull request here: https://github.com/openscad/openscad/pull/82
> 
> It would be nice if you could provide some usage scenarios. I'm curious where you'd use this function.

Much appreciated!

Most immediate use is for accessing polygon path tables like this: https://github.com/clothbot/makerbot/blob/master/fabjects/libraries/constructors/fonts.scad

I managed to get a "font_char_index" recursive lookup function working in https://github.com/clothbot/makerbot/blob/master/fabjects/libraries/constructors/text.scad but it was horribly slow.

Andrew.

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