Method: InterMine::PathQuery::Query#first

Defined in:
lib/intermine/query.rb

#first(start = 0) ⇒ Object

Get the first result record from the query, starting at the given offset. If the offset is large, then this is not an efficient way to retrieve this data, and you may with to consider a looping approach or row based access instead.



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# File 'lib/intermine/query.rb', line 560

def first(start=0)
    current_row = 0
    # Have to iterate as start refers to row count
    results_reader.each_result { |r|
        if current_row == start
            return r
        end
        current_row += 1
    }
    return nil
end