Columns - feature request

[Tariel Gogoberidze]

--On Wednesday, December 04, andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  wrote:

P.S. I need to do it FAST on large variables, therefore a repeat
loop won't do.

I don't think you can do it without at least one repeat since we don't have the concept of columns in MC.

This sounds good as a feature request - columns, columnDelimiter.

Regards, Andu Novac

Countless times I wished for this feature. At least for something like

split MyArray by cr VERTICALY

so that for example:

put "A1,B1,C1" into line 1 of MyArray
put "A2,B2,C2" into line 3 of MyArray
put "A3,B3,C3" into line 4 of MyArray
put "A4,B4,C4 " into line 2 of MyArray

split MyArray by cr VERTICALY
or
split COLUMNS of MyArray by cr

answer MyArray ["1"]

would return

A1
A2
A3
A4"
Assuming that engine will honor ItemDelimiters to identify column dividers

Generally, it could be any syntax but the idea is that I currently don't know any DIRECT way to split matrix type variable so that each element of the array would contain the column of the variable.

As for the "concept of columns in MC" - this would be phenomenal.
If columns would be incorporated as one of the tokens it would be possible to…

Put column 3 of tvar into column 2 of tAnotherVar

Replace col 3 of tvar with col 4 of tanothervar

Delete col 5 of tvar

But again, even the ability to split array by columns would greatly reduce number of repeat loops we have to write

Best regards
Tariel Gogoberidze

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