searching a list of lists as a two-dimensional array?

[agent-s]

Thanks for the help guys but I'm a newbie at this and from what I
understand from the code, it looks like you guys are using a two
dimensional array. I am not using a two dimensional array. Basically,
it looks like this:

[
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '],
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '],
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '],
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '],
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '],
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '],
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '],
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ']
]

above: a list of lists NOT a two-dimensional array