# Removing element in a list without index
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-element-in-a-list-without-index/1042272
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [January 6, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-element-in-a-list-without-index/1042272 "2021-01-06T11:17:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@lukas\_b\_98knm](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lukas_b_98knm)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-element-in-a-list-without-index/1042272/1 "2021-01-06T11:17:58Z")
Hi,
I would like to delete a value within a list if the user clicks on a component. However, I only find the block which allows for deletion based on index, not value. Is there a way to delete a value within a list based on searching for a string?
E.g. within the list “Interests”, there are “Sports”, “Music”, “Reading”. I do not know at which index those elements will be located. Hence, I need to search based on the string, not index.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
Thanks,
Lukas
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### Author:  [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-element-in-a-list-without-index/1042272/2 "2021-01-06T11:34:59Z")
What if you had non-unique values in the list, would it delete all “Sports” or just the first occurrence of “Sports” that it finds?
There’s are also #Tutorials and DIY Guides about making a Search Bar in your app that you might find useful:
> [@Making a Search Bar](http://community.thunkable.com/t/making-a-search-bar/60939):
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> Note: This tutorial was updated in June 2020 to reflect the new [when Text Input Changes](https://docs.thunkable.com/text-input#changes) block, which makes adding a search bar to your app much easier! This post will talk about creating a search bar for your app. Search Bars are great if you have a lot of text items or List Viewer options that you want to make available to the user without having a lot of items on the Screen at once. This post will describe how to make a search bar with a search button and a search bar that updates automatic…
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### Author:  [@lukas\_b\_98knm](https://community.thunkable.com/u/lukas_b_98knm)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-element-in-a-list-without-index/1042272/3 "2021-01-06T14:33:33Z")
All the values are unique, but what I am asking is how do I remove the unique value if I do not know the index? The # implies that I know the index of the value I want to delete, right? The issue is that I do not know the index, but rather just the value.
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### Author:  [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-element-in-a-list-without-index/1042272/4 "2021-01-06T16:17:43Z")
You could use the “find first occurrence in list” block @lukas_b_98knm
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/removing-element-in-a-list-without-index/1042272/5 "2024-11-08T13:31:00Z")