Preperly using remove link.

I've read that removelink is much faster than listremove. I'm pretty used to listremove but I'm not quite sure how to remove a random link from a list using removelink. I really need speed here because my lists are very long.

Thanks for any help.

Currently I'm using the following method:

ListRemove(word_list,TLink(word_list.valueatindex(Rand(0,length-1))))

The ListAddLast method returns a TLink, so if you were to store that, then you could remove it directly using RemoveLink().

So you could setup your type like this:

Type TWords
	Global wordlist:TList

	Field word:String
	Field wlink:TLink

	Function newWord(word:String)
		Local tmp:TWords = New TWords
		tmp.word = word
		tmp.wlink = ListAddLast(wordlist,tmp)
	End Function

	Function remove(tmp:TWords)
		RemoveLink(tmp.wlink)
	End Function
End Type

This is untested, just typed directly, but it might get you further on, otherwise I am sure someone else can pitch in and correct it :)

Ahhh I see now..

Or this way:

Type TWords
    Global list:tlist=new tlist
    Field link:tlink
    '
    Method New()
        list.addlast(self)
    end method
    '
    Method Remove()
        link.remove
     end method
end type
'
Type TSentence extends TWords

  Method Remove()
     super.remove
   end method

http://blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=80441#905043
(The postings from dmaz)