Combine/split arrays

[Shari]

Still working on the array issue.  The array is multi-dimensional. 
There are always 2 numbers to get to a piece of info.  The info 
retrieved is one line of data, originally comma delimited, but now 
delimited by semi-colon, as I thought the comma was throwing off the 
combine/split functions (I sure would prefer a comma....)

eg:  myData[1,50]
eg:  myData[300,860]
# combine handler #

global myData
  put the effective filename of this stack into combineArrays
  set the itemDel to "/"
  put "combine.mc" into the last item of combineArrays
  set the itemDel to comma
  combine myData using "@" and "~"
  put myData into cd fld 1 of cd 1 of stack combineArrays
  save stack combineArrays
# split handler #

global myData
  put the effective filename of this stack into combineArrays
  set the itemDel to "/"
  put "combine.mc" into the last item of combineArrays
  set the itemDel to comma
  put cd fld 1 of cd 1 of stack combineArrays into myData

  split myData using "@" and "~"

  answer myData [1,1]  # testing the result, this one always works

  answer myData [50,860]  # testing the result, comes up empty where 
data should be

  answer myData [300,860]  # testing the result, comes up empty where 
data should be

Any ideas?

Shari C
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