Searches a symbol table for a symbol name
Supported Platforms: Windows and Mac OS
(tblsearch table-name symbol [setnext])
Type: String
Symbol table to be searched. This argument is not case-sensitive.
Type: String
Symbol name to be searched for. This argument is not case-sensitive.
Type: T or nil
If this argument is supplied and is not nil, the tblnext entry counter is adjusted so the following tblnext call returns the entry after the one returned by this tblsearch call. Otherwise, tblsearch has no effect on the order of entries retrieved by tblnext.
Type: List or nil
If tblsearch finds an entry for the given symbol name, it returns that entry. If no entry is found, tblsearch returns nil.
The following command searches for a text style named “standard”:
(tblsearch "style" "standard") ((0 . "STYLE") (2 . "STANDARD") (70 . 0) (40 . 0.0) (41 . 1.0) (50 . 0.0) (71 . 0) (42 . 0.3) (3 . "txt") (4 . ""))