Hi Bryan,
Thanks a lot for your reply and your suggestions. :) I will try them. Thanks, Kostas On 24 July 2015 at 14:10, Bryan Jurish <[email protected]> wrote: > moin Konstantinos, > > afaik, builtin support only includes PDL::Char, which is restricted > fixed-length strings encoded as byte-values (e.g. ASCII). There's also > Zakariyya > Mughal's Data::Frame which seems capable of handling variable-length > strings, but I'm unclear on the details; perhaps he can chime in. Whenever > I need to do something like this (very often, since I work with text data), > I usually end up building an extra hash+array pair for mapping back and > forth between strings and integer-IDs, and let PDL work with just the IDs. > Not pretty, but it works. > > marmosets, > Bryan > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Konstantinos Billis <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi people, >> >> >> Just a quick question. I am using PDL to build arrays, for example " >> zeroes" function. If I understand correctly, those elements of the >> arrays should contain only numbers (or bad, inf etc). Could I use any other >> function for creating strings/words of lists/arrays instead of numbers? In >> other words, for example, to initialize an array with NULLs and then add >> strings or words in particular positions of the array. >> >> >> Many Thanks, >> Kostas >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pdl-general mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdl-general >> >> > > > -- > Bryan Jurish "There is *always* one more bug." > [email protected] -Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology >
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