Michael Dinowitz wrote:
> I think that a new array search function might be in order here. Something to
> look through an array for a value and return its index.
>
>>I'm not sure what you are really trying to accomplish here.
I agree with matt, are you working on the maketree tag in cf? lets talk
examples...
do you modify the array, ( ie inserting or deleting array members other
than from the end?) if not then u could index the array using structures
<cfscript>
item_array=ArrayNew(1);
item_struct=StructNew();
</cfscript>
<cfloop query="qry_items">
<cfscript>
x=arraylen(item_array);
item_array[x]=qry_item.item;
item_struct[qry_item.item]=x;
</cfscript>
</cfloop>
find where dog is in the array = item_struct["dog"] or item_struct.dog
this method is so fast scaling the dataset makes almost no difference in
speed
now you can always find the position of x in the array using the struct,
this of course doesn't handle very well adding elements to the aray
ideally I would try to eliminate arrays all together... esp when u
consider that have 2 values in a struct, the key and the value
z
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