Hi All, I am trying to build a function which takes words as the input and checks them against a table: Colour = collect(“BROYWGIP”) Colourtable = Table(name = [“Black”, “Red”, “Orange”, “Yellow”, “White”, “Green”, “Blue”, “Purple”], symbol = [Colour[1], Colour[2], Colour[3], Colour[4], Colour[5]…

It seems to me like what you are doing should be a one or two-liner at most, but I struggle to see what exactly you are trying to do. Maybe something like this? julia> colour_dict = Dict(collect("BROYWGIP") .=> 0:7) Dict{Char, Int64} with 8 entries: 'P' => 7 'I' => 6 'Y' => 3 'R' => 1 'W…

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Thank you for responding, I have an issue running the code too, but the error comes from the Check(x). The possible inputs for x are supposed to be Black, Red, Orange, Yellow, White, Green, Blue, Purple. Anything else is supposed to return an error I have tried to follow the guidelines: using Tabl…

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There are a few issues with your present code: collect(“BROYWGIP”): you have used an initial quote in the beginning, you must use " for the beginning and end of strings otherwise the first line will return an error (“BROYWGIP”) The @Compute macro and Table type are not part of the standard librar…

Hi M-Persic, Thank you for coming back. I have corrected the thread to show the package (apologies first time using the forum) the collect("BRYWGIP") returns an error when I use two single quotes, but provides a vector of size 8 when I use the double quote. perhaps this was a formating issue wh…

[image] Sunshine: collect("BRYWGIP") Yes, in Julia, a pair of single quotes ’ ’ delimit a character (Char), whereas pair of double quotes " " or “”" “”" delimit string literals. In this instance, we don’t know how the @Compute macro functions, so it’s hard to diagnose why it is spitting ou…

Thank you Nilshg, I am likely over complicating this as I get my head around the possible ways to code it!! I will try this approach as well

I found the @Compute macro in this part of the manual: https://typedtables.juliadata.org/stable/man/map/ :slight_smile:

[image] Sunshine: part of the manual you’re looking at the documentation of a package called TypedTable, not Julia’s own “manual”

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Have you taken a look at enums? They are built in or there is a package with extended functionality.

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