>There's an example similar to what you need to do in the Examples
>stack (card 6).
>
>The best way to do this depends mostly on how often you need to search
>that data. If only occasionally, you're probably better off just
>keeping the data in a custom property and using offset() or
>lineOffset() to do the lookups. Using associative arrays is mostly
>useful if you have to do a lot of lookups quickly, or if the data is
>compressed in the process of indexing (as in the word-count example).
>Arrays, like fields, are relatively inefficient at storing large
>amounts of textual data because it expands some when stored this way.
> Regards,
> Scott
>There is also an example of importing a file and splitting it into an array
>on our web site, the article "Text Management" - go down to the heading
>"Splitting up large amounts of data to perform text matching operations".
>
>Regards,
>
>Kevin
Thanks Scott & Kevin - I'll look at both to see what I can do with
associative arrays.
Cheers
Peter
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