Function Entry: TBLSEARCH

tblsearch

Host Function

(tblsearch table-name symbol [setnext])

• table-name: symbol table designator
• symbol: entry name
• setnext: optional iteration-control flag

Autodesk documents both table-name and symbol as strings and case-insensitive.

Searches a symbol table for a named entry.

Association list for the matching entry, or nil.

May affect table-iteration state when the optional flag is used.

Part of the core CAD database querying model.

• AutoCAD 2026: documented (per Autodesk reference page).
• BricsCAD V26: presumed compatible (no contradicting page found).
• Status: AutoCAD documented; BricsCAD presumed-both pending Phase 4 verification.

• [tblsearch (AutoLISP)](https://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2024/JPN/AutoCAD-MAC-AutoLISP-Reference/files/GUID-2AEB84A6-E3D0-4DD9-A29C-54D4099ED925.htm)

• If setnext is supplied and non-nil, Autodesk documents that the next tblnext call returns the entry following the one found by tblsearch.

clautolisp seeds the full standard symbol-table set and answers tblsearch / tblnext / tblobjname over all of them: LAYER, LTYPE (a.k.a. LINETYPE), STYLE (a.k.a. TEXTSTYLE), BLOCK (the block-record table), VIEW, UCS, VPORT, DIMSTYLE, and APPID (also grown by regapp). The string values in a returned table record are AutoLISP strings (so strcat, = and type accept them directly, as on a real CAD). tblnext order is deterministic (name-sorted) but not contractually the vendor's order; assert membership, not iteration order. AutoLISP cannot create symbol-table records with entmake in clautolisp yet (a table record created that way is stored as an ordinary object, not a table row) — use regapp for APPID; other tables are pre-seeded. This create-gap is tracked as a deferred item.