>-----Original Message----- >From: Ian McGowan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 7:17 PM >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: RE: [U2] [UV] How to return 'column' from dyn array? > > >> From: Barry Brevik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Yeah. I'm working on some code I inherited. I was banging my >> head trying to figure out why the author setup his array >> 'backwards'. Maybe *I'm* backwards, and that is a legitimate >> technique, but my brain does not want to go there. > >I think you're backwards, too :-) > >Accounts -> files -> items -> attributes -> values -> subvalues
in theory this works great! but...in reality (oh wait, poor choice of word). Say you have array of sales figures. <x> is the client and <,y> is the year, so it's setup like you stated and the dictionary will show all the years for each client. Now..You want to pull an array of all the sales for year<,3> That's where a function to grab a column would be nice. otherwise you have to either maintain (2) arrays, one <x,y> one <y,x> or use a subroutine (which usually isn't as fast as an intrinisc function). I forget if the FIELDS() method works, and/or why it didn't (if it didn't). I'll have to play with it. > >(from http://www.jes.com/pb/pb_wp1.html) > >Is the traditional pick terminology, where the values are >multiple instances >of some related things (invoice numbers, address lines 1 and >2, etc). If >you keep multivalued data together, then you can display it using one >dictionary attribute INVOICES, instead of having INVOICE.1, >INVOICE.2 etc... >Doing it your way round is less idiomatic, imnsho. > >Ian ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
