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[[Category:FloatNamedArraylist methods|FindNextItem function]]
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<p>
FindNextItem is a member of the [[FloatNamedArraylist class]].
</p>
 
This function searches &ldquo;forward&rdquo; in the FloatNamedArraylist to find and return
the next item that matches a specified criterion.
The criterion is supplied by the [[SelectionCriterion class|SelectionCriterion]] object
that is a required FindNextItem parameter.
If no item satisfies the criterion,
the request is cancelled and an ItemNotFound exception ([[??]] refid=itemnfe.)
is thrown.
 
FindNextItem is available in ''Sirius Mods'' version 7.6 and later.
==Syntax==
  %item = %fnamrayl:FindNextItem(criterion        -
                                  [,&nbsp;Start=itemnum])
===Syntax Terms===
<dl>
<dt><i>%item</i>
<dd>A variable of the type of the items in the FloatNamedArraylist to contain the
item that is located by the search.
<dt><i>%fnamrayl</i>
<dd>A FloatNamedArraylist object.
<dt><i>criterion</i>
<dd>A SelectionCriterion object, which is a relational expression that is
applied to a ''%fnamrayl'' item value to determine
whether the value satisfies the expression.
The expression consists of a function, an operator, and a numeric or string value.
 
For example, <tt>GT(this, -1)</tt> is the
criterion <tt>this</tt> <tt>></tt> <tt>-1</tt>, where
<tt>this</tt> is an identity function that simply returns the item's value.
The first item tested by FindNextItem that satisfies this expression is
the method's return value.
 
The function in the criterion is
a method value (a method or class member name literal, or a method variable)
for a method
that operates on items of the type specified on the ''%fnamrayl''
declaration and that returns a numeric or string value.
This is described further in "[[SelectionCriterion class#Specifying a SelectionCriterion's parameters|Specifying a SelectionCriterion's parameters]]".
<dt><b>Start=</b><i> itemnum</i>
<dd>The number of the item ''after'' which to begin the search.
If the ''itemnum'' value of Start is 2, item 3 is the first item considered.
The value of Start may be 0 through the number of items in
the FloatNamedArraylist.
For a FloatNamedArraylist of three items, ''itemnum'' may be 0, 1, 2, or 3.
 
This is an optional argument, and it defaults to 0.
If you specify a value, the parameter name <tt>Start</tt> is required.
 
</dl>
==Usage Notes==
<ul>
<li>If the value of Start is greater than the number of items in the
FloatNamedArraylist, the request is cancelled.
If the value of Start is equal to the number of items,
the request is cancelled, but an ItemNotFound exception is thrown.
<li>[[FindPreviousItem (FloatNamedArraylist function)|FindPreviousItem]]
is identical to FindNextItem except that it searches backward in the
FloatNamedArraylist.
</ul>
==Examples==
 
In the following fragment, two FindNextItem calls are applied to a
FloatNamedArraylist
of objects of the <tt>annual</tt> class that is defined in the
request in the "[[Minimum (FloatNamedArraylist function)#Examples|FloatNamedArraylist Minimum function example]]".
The second call finds no matching item:
<pre style="xmp">
    %fann is floatnamedArraylist of object annual
    %fann = new
    %fann(12) = newa(621, 650)
    %fann(14) = newa(334, 343)
    %fann(15) = newa(288, 276)
    %fann(13) = newa(141, 182)
    %fann(11) = newa(131, 115)
 
    %sel is object selectionCriterion for object annual
    %sel2 is object selectionCriterion for object annual
    %sel = AND(GT(chg, 10), LE(yend, 200))
    %sel2 = AND(GT(chg, 10), LE(yend, 100))
 
    %ann is object annual
    %ann = %fann:findNextItem(%sel)
    print %ann:myprint
 
    %ann = %fann:findNextItem(%sel2)
    print %ann:myprint
</pre>
 
The result is:
<pre style="xmp">
    ybegin=141, yend=182
    Class FLOATNAMEDARRAYLIST, function FINDNEXTITEM:
    ITEMNOTFOUND exception: no items match Selection-
    Criterion in line 54
</pre>

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