It's a little unclear what you want to do that you can't figure out how to
accomplish. You can allocate an uninitialized vector of ExampleEvent
objects:
julia> type ExampleEvent
fld1::ASCIIString
fld2::Int16
fld3::Int64
fld4::Int64
fld5::Int64
fld6::Int64
fld7::Int64
end
julia> events = Vector{ExampleEvent}(1000)
1000-element Array{ExampleEvent,1}:
#undef
#undef
#undef
⋮
#undef
#undef
#undef
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:51 PM, <maxent...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I was working on processing large data sets & historically I've used
> structs in C++ & other languages for this type of task. I attempted to use
> a Composite Type in Julia & preallocate a large array before filling it
> w/values as my algo processes the data.
>
> My example was:
>
> type ExampleEvent
>
> fld1::ASCIIString
> fld2::Int16
> fld3::Int64
> fld4::Int64
> fld5::Int64
> fld6::Int64
> fld7::Int64
>
> end
>
> I googled around & from what I found, & all the docs examples I tried out,
> there isn't an obvious way to declare an array of composite type without
> having to do some work arounds.
>
> I liked the language in several other respects but it seems to be missing
> helpful tools to make the programmer's life easy. Am I missing something?
> If not, why is a data structure like this not easily available?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> best,
> A
>
