let me rephrase that

2004-02-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Let me rephrase that. Which is better for getting multiple pieces of information and acting upon them? An array, custom property sets and custom properties or delimited items in lines in a variable? I can't find enough good advice in the docs on where it is best to use and array(by key

Re: let me rephrase that

2004-02-23 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, February 23, 2004, at 11:39 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Which is better for getting multiple pieces of information and acting upon them? An array, custom property sets and custom properties or delimited items in lines in a variable? Except for character chunks, arbitrary chunk refer

Re: let me rephrase that

2004-02-24 Thread Rob Cozens
Still on bugzilla wish list as multidimensional arrays. FWIW, one can create & manipulate multidimensional arrays fairly easily in Transcript using a unique itemDelimiter for each dimension. -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm "And I, which was two foole

Re: let me rephrase that

2004-02-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Rob, Can you explain that a little more? I am interested. Right now I am thinking what I need is more XML like but want to be able to use the tools available for arrays,variables more than those for XML. Do you have a way to explain it more? Thanks Tom On Feb 24, 2004, at 9:05 AM, Rob Cozen

Re: let me rephrase that

2004-02-24 Thread Rob Cozens
Do you have a way to explain it more? Tom, First & easiest: One can construct a three dimensional array with words, items, and lines: word z of item y of line x of myArray = myArray[x,y,z]. Of course this supposed the contents of myArray do not include space, comma, or return. And this will n