What you're finding out is that lists are passed by reference, so when you
do tempList=initialList all you are really doing is making an additional
pointer to the same list.
This can be very helpful, or very problematic, depending on what you're
trying to accomplish! :)
But you want to actually save off a copy, so what you need to do is this:
tempList = duplicate(initialList)
- Tab
At 07:24 PM 2/20/02 -0500, Changhsu P. Liu wrote:
>I'd like to delete some items during a calculation on a list. But, I want
>it intact after all the calculation.
>So, I thought I save it to a temporary list and put it back when done.
>
>tempList = initialList
>...
>all the deleteAt on initialList
>...
>initialList = tempList -- to get it back so I thought
>
>But, to my surprise when I delete items from initialList, tempList get the
>items deleted too. I can put the initial list content to a field and
>extract them later after calculation. Is there a better way to deal with this?
>
>Thanks for the help,
>
>
>Changhsu Liu
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