How to access fields inside table

A couple of approaches:

key="RPPOLY"
cadddr(Device_Asso_Table[key]) => 0
; increment the field using a descructive list operator
rplaca(cdddr(Device_Asso_Table[key]) cadddr(Device_Asso_Table[key])+1)

Or you could use this approach:

defstruct(MYcellCountData instName cellName libName count)
Device_Asso_Table=makeTable("Device Table" nil) ; better to use nil here?
Device_Asso_Table[cellName]=make_MYcellCountData(?instName inst~>name ?cellName inst~>cellName ?libName inst~>libName ?count count)

then you can do:

Device_Asso_Table[key]->count=Device_Asso_Table[key]->count+1

You could use a disembodied property list instead of the structure, but the defstruct is a bit more efficient (and more explicit).

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks Andrew.

I tried defstruct method. I have one issue though. When I print the table using printstruct, value of count is not getting updated.

below is a code I am using to increment count value.

foreach(item Device_Asso_Table
      if(Device_Asso_Table[item]==Device_Asso_Table[inst~>cellName]
       then Device_Asso_Table[key]~>count=Device_Asso_Table[item]~>count+1
        ;println(Device_Asso_Table[key]~>count)
           );if
            );foreach

What I am trying to do is, trying to update count value whenever I find the same key again.

could you take a look and let me know what's missing in the code?

That's a bit odd - there's no need to search through all the keys with a foreach to find one that matches - the whole point of an association table is that it will find the entry with the same key. Quite probably the problem with the above code is that you're mixing item and key in the code - and so you're probably not updating the right structure.

It should be enough to do:

struct=Device_Asso_Table[inst~>cellName]
if(struct then
  struct->count=struct->count+1
else
  Device_Asso_Table[inst~>cellName]=make_whatever(?this ... ?that ... ?count 1)
)

No need for loops whatsoever.

Regards,

Andrew.

I dint quite understand the if condition.

if(struct then

Also I tried to use it but count remains unchanged. Looks like it never passes the if condition.