On 3/11/21 4:33 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote:
> Mark,
> Give an example of what would be better, not just hit and run with a
> 'That's crap!' comment. Way to make me feel good for all the hard
work put
> in. THANKS BUDDY!
Sean-
Not intended to be a 'that's crap' comment. You've got an excellent
discussion of multidimensional arrays there.
Obviously if you've got a static file system where folder names never
change and files don't get moved around then you could have an ideal
array-based system there. And from your writeup it sounds like you've
got this working in a real-life system.
NOTE: I wrote this before your latest email came in, so yeah.
I would, of course, have the same hesitations about your system of
buildings, floors, terminals, etc... in a previous job we moved from the
10th floor to the 9th floor of the same building. In a database system
I'd query for every user moving from one floor to the other and adjust
their location property. If I had to do this in an array based on keys
that were location parts, I'd have a tougher job to do.
I'd have to parse elements like [186,11,47,10][127,10,2,103] for that
elusive "10" in the second key in order to find the inhabitants of the
10th floor, extract their data, remove the old keys, and create new ones
of [186,11,47,10][127,9,2,103] with the extracted data.
With the other approach [186,11,47,10][127][10][2][103] it's an easier
task to grab the [186,11,47,10][127][10] array, store it, delete the
array, and put in the new [186,11,47,10][127][9] array.
I'd probably still use a database for this anyway, but ymmv, no?
--
Mark Wieder
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