Sometimes I don't want to throw an error.

I set up a small database with OOMK. I wanted to check whether an entry was already present before I add it; if it is present I don't want to add a new copy.

So I check whether it is present with

$pk FIND name $thisname

and it it is not present it throws an error. I must catch the error so I can close the view etc.

I'm finding this tedious. I'd much rather just have something simple, like perhaps return the row# if it's found and a -1 if it isn't found. Perhaps it's only that I don't see the true simplicity of the current approach, but being able to avoid the error looks easier to me in my particular circumstance.