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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Jake March 14, 2023, 4:19pm 12

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

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