I guess reading the docs would have helped to keep my foot out of my mouth
there... Given what is says it ought to be able to do what you want as long
as the thing you are passing in is a Struct; it does not accept Arrays
directly. A quick test confirmed that. You can just assign your array to a
field in a new Struct and you'll be able to search it that way though. Yup,
that works. (cf5)
Mark
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From: Susan McNab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 7:10 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: StructFindKey - what's really possible?
Mark, Thanks.
>>What do you mean when you say "array"? I am reading the docs for
StructKeyFind to mean that if a Struct contains another struct then it will
dive into that too, but it doesn't say it will scan Arrays.
What you say makes sense but are we reading the same CFDocs? Originally I
thought StructFindKey was just for structures too. Then I looked at the MX
CFDocs and they specifically say "Structure or Array" in several places and
that they can be nested. Maybe that means one or the other but not mixed?
Here's another quote: "Searches recursively through a substructure of nested
arrays, structures, and other elements"
I am not so much interested in getting a solution to a specific coding
issue. I don't think I am understanding the CFDocs clearly. I wondered if
anyone else has been through this and come up with a concise summary of
StructFindKey behavior.
>>At any rate, if you describe your data structure more clearly then you'll
be
more likely to get an accurate answer.
The data structure is similar to the example I provided, except that the
stuct keys are well formed and the data is not such a regular pattern. (I
was tired when I knocked that up...don't know what I was thinking!)
It groups together a structure of summary details (aArray[n][1]) with
varying numbers of line items (aArray[n][2,3,4,...n]) each of which holds a
structure.
Here's an abbreviated representation:
a2DArray[1][1].iQuoteID
[1].sDescription
[1].iDiscountRate
[1].iAction
a2DArray[1][2].iQuoteRowID
[2].sItemDescription
[2].iQuantity
[2].iChargePropertyID
[2].iAction
a2DArray[1][3].iQuoteRowID
[3].sItemDescription
[3].iQuantity
[3].iChargePropertyID
[3].iAction
a2DArray[2][1].iQuoteID
[1].sDescription
[1].iDiscountRate
[1].iAction
a2DArray[2][2].iQuoteRowID
[2].sItemDescription
[2].iQuantity
[2].iChargePropertyID
[2].iAction
Rgds
Sue
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