Is there any good material on the use of associative arrays in
MetaCard? I'm trying to implement a smallish database by uploading
text files into associative arrays and then exporting them
afterwards. There seems to be very little advice/examples in the
MetaCard help etc. on this subject.
I'm using delimited text files to act as the permanent store of the
database files. Each file consists of a series of lines (records),
each of which consists of a series of delimited items (fields). Is
there any simple way of implementing these as associative arrays and
importing/exporting the data. In the worse case a db file could
consist of 200,000 lines of about 20 chars each! Most files will
have 1000-5000 lines of 20-250 chars.
Thanks for any help
Peter
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Peter Reid
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