At 5:27 PM -0700 9/5/00, Kerry Thompson wrote:
>This should be simple, but I'm getting tangled up in the dot
>syntax--and maybe in multidimensional arrays, too. It's been a long
>week this month.
>
>I want to display a list of words, chosen from several lists.
>Ideally, I'd like to do something like:
>
>wordList = masterList[n]
>repeat with i = 1 to wordList.count
> put wordList.aWord[i]
>end repeat
>
>The line I am looking to convert to a list looks like this:
>"Start;Lingo;C;Pascal"
>
>Currently I have this code to create the list:
>the itemDelimiter = ";"
>repeat for i = 1 to numLines
> theText = masterText.line[i].item[1] --I know this works
> if theText = "Start" then
> addProp(gWordList, #listStart, [:]
> repeat with j = 2 to masterList.line[i].item.count
> addProp(gWordList, #aWord, masterList.line[i].item[j]
> end repeat
> end if
>end repeat
>
>I know I'm not building the list right--I think I want a list
>something like this:
>
>[#listStart: [#aWord: "Lingo", #aWord: "C", #aWord: "Pascal"],
>#listStart [#aWord: "Apple", #aWord, "Dell", #aWord, "Gateway"]]
>
Kerry,
Maybe I'm mising something here, but why are you using property lists
at all? I don't see any advantage of using the the extra and
confusingly duplicated symbols. Instead, I would suggest using a
structure which is a linear list of linear lists, like this:
[["Lingo", "C", "Pascal", ["Apple", "Dell", "Gateway"], [etc.]]
Your parsing becomes more like this (untested):
gWordList = []
the itemDelimiter = ;
repeat for i = 1 to numLines
theText = masterText.line[i].item[i]
if theText = "Start" then
-- Using Bhakti's suggestion
tempList = []
nItems = masterList.line[i].item.count
repeat with j = 2 to nItems
append(tempList, masterList.line[i].item[j])
end repeat
-- now add the temp list into your global list
append(gWordList, tempList)
end if
end repeat
Then to display a particular list, do this:
wordList = gWordList[n]
nItems = wordList.count()
repeat with i = 1 to nItems
put wordList[i]
end
Irv
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