seaching a list...

[bruce]

hi...

i'm playing with a test sample. i have somethhing like:
 dog = mysql_get(.....)
 .
 .
 .

such that 'dog' will be an 'AxB' array of data from the tbls

furher in the test app, i'm going to have a list, foo:
 foo = 'a','b','c','d'

i'm trying to determine what's the fastest way of searching through the
'dog' array/list of information for the 'foo' list.

should i essentially make dog into A lists, where each list is B elements,
or should it somehow combine all the elements/items in 'dog' into one large
list, and then search through that for the 'foo' list...

also, in searching through google, i haven't come across the list.search
function.. so just how do i search a list to see if it contains a sublist...

my real problem involves figuring out how to reduce the number of hits to
the db/tbl...

thanks

ps. if this is confusing, i could provide psuedo-code to make it easier to
see...