EEL ReaScript - better method for selecting track name instead of looping?

[StepOne]

If I want to select a specific track, I have an eel script that will iterate through the track names until it is found

function selectTrack(trackName)
    (
      i = 0;
      loop(CountTracks(0),
      track = GetTrack(0, i);
        GetSetMediaTrackInfo_String(track, "P_NAME", #current_track_name, 0); 
        match(trackName, #current_track_name) ? ...Matched Code... : ...Unmatched Code...;
        i += 1;
      );
    );

Is this still the best way to select a specific track? Is there no native method that can directly pull a current track by name without iterating?

[X-Raym]

nope,
but you have to exit the loop when match is found. a while loop may be required here.

[StepOne]

Originally Posted by X-Raym

nope,
but you have to exit the loop when match is found. a while loop may be required here.

I do understand that, the code I pasted was original code with the intent of also modifying other tracks that were not the specified track name (but indeed unnecessary for my example).

[Lokasenna]

If your script needed to look up a lot of tracks by name, or do it repeatedly, etc, you could store all of the track names and their index numbers in a script table and access that instead so it only has to run the GetMediaTrackInfo loop once at startup.

[StepOne]

Originally Posted by Lokasenna

If your script needed to look up a lot of tracks by name, or do it repeatedly, etc, you could store all of the track names and their index numbers in a script table and access that instead so it only has to run the GetMediaTrackInfo loop once at startup.

This...this is a great idea. Thank you!

[X-Raym]

only works if track structure dont change during script execution.

[StepOne]

Originally Posted by X-Raym

only works if track structure dont change during script execution.

Yes, I am aware of this, thank you.