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The dictionaryvalueexists statement returns true or false depending on whether or not a key/value pair exists in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).

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Parameters

This statement has three parameters:

dictionary – name of the field or variable that contains the dictionary (must contain binary data).

key – is the name of the key you want to check.

result – is the field or variable to receive the true/false value.

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Description

The dictionaryvalueexists statement takes a key name and determines whether it exists in the dictionary collection. For example, suppose you created a dictionary and stored it in variable named mailto.

fileglobal mailto,exists
mailto=initializedictionary("Address","3987 Olive","City","Tustin","State","CA","Zip","92841")

Later, you could use the dictionaryvalueexists statement to check whether different values exist in this dictionary:

dictionaryvalueexists mailto,"Address",exists ☞ -1 (true)
dictionaryvalueexists mailto,"Country",exists ☞ 0 (false)

Of course, the contents of a dictionary could change over time – for example, a Country value could be added to this dictionary:

mailto=changedictionaryvalues(mailto,"Country","United States")

After this change is made, the dictionaryvalueexists statement will now return true when you check for the Country value:

dictionaryvalueexists mailto,"Country",exists ☞ -1 (true)

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See Also

• appenddictionaryvalue -- appends a value to an item in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• changedictionaryname -- changes the name (key) of an item in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• changedictionaryvalues( -- changes one or more values in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• copypartialdictionary -- builds a new dictionary and initializes it with values from an existing dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• copypartialdictionary( -- partially copies a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• Data Dictionaries -- Overview of Panorama's key/value data dictionaries.
• deletedictionaryvalue -- deletes a key/value pair from a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• deletedictionaryvalue( -- deletes one or more key/value pairs from a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• dictionarydifference -- builds an array that lists keys of dictionary values that are different between two dictionaries (see Data Dictionaries).
• dictionaryfromarray( -- builds a new dictionary and initializes it from a two dimensional text array (see Data Dictionaries and Text Arrays).
• dictionaryvalueexists( -- returns true or false depending on whether or not a key/value pair exists in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• dumpdictionary -- returns a carriage return separated array of dictionary keys and values (see Data Dictionaries).
• dumpdictionary( -- returns a carriage return separated array of dictionary keys and values (see Data Dictionaries).
• dumpdictionaryquoted -- returns a carriage return separated array of dictionary keys and values (see Data Dictionaries).
• dumpdictionaryquoted( -- returns a carriage return separated array of dictionary keys and values (see Data Dictionaries). The text values are quoted.
• getdictionarykey -- returns the key of an item in the dictionary, given its value. This is essentially the opposite of the getdictionaryvalue( function (see Data Dictionaries).
• getdictionarykey( -- returns the key of an item in the dictionary, given its value). This is essentially the opposite of the getdictionaryvalue( function (see Data Dictionaries).
• getdictionaryvalue -- returns the value of an item in the dictionary, given its key (see Data Dictionaries).
• getdictionaryvalue( -- returns the value of an item in the dictionary, given its key (see Data Dictionaries).
• info("timerinfo") -- returns a dictionary that contains all of the properties of the currently running timer.
• initializedictionary -- builds a new dictionary and initializes it with one or more key/value entries (see Data Dictionaries).
• initializedictionary( -- builds a new dictionary and initializes it with one or more key/value entries (see Data Dictionaries).
• initializedictionaryvalue( -- builds a new dictionary and initializes it with one or more entries (see Data Dictionaries). This function is deprecated, we recommend using the initializedictionary( function instead.
• listdictionarykeys( -- returns a list of the keys in a dictionary collection.
• listdictionarynames -- returns a list of the names (keys) in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• mergedictionaries -- merges the contents of two or more dictionaries (see Data Dictionaries).
• mergedictionaries( -- merges the contents of two or more dictionaries (see Data Dictionaries).
• renamedictionarykey( -- changes the key (name) of one or more values in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• setdictionaryvalue -- changes a value in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• timerinfo( -- returns a dictionary that contains all of the properties of a timer.

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History

Version	Status	Notes
10.0	Updated	Carried over from Panorama 6.0, but uses new internal dictionary format