you don’t need that, just use item (patrick v ) of (csv)
don’t worry; with some practice that will go away 
item () of (item () of @list)
You’re expecting the two dimensions of a table to be usable interchangeably in code (as you could in APL, btw). But we store a table as a list of rows, so there’s no straightforward way to get, e.g., column 2 of the table. You could do it with
which has worked in Snap! since forever, but these days it’s faster to take
especially for big tables.
It’s important to remember that 
is the entire row, a list, not just the first column of that row. If you want to find the row matching a particular name, you say
Oh, Thanks
Oh, Ok