Bob Sneidar wrote: >> On Apr 3, 2018, at 11:38 , Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> What is the goal? >> >> Arrays and memory-based SQLite are both in-memory stores with hashed >> access. I'm guessing there's something more to this use-case than my >> limited thinking currently grasps. > > You would be correct. :-) > > I posted a little while ago that I wrote some code to gather certain > properties of all the objects on a card into an array. Converting that > array into a memory database allows me to find all the objects that > are for example, visible and groups and then get the top, left, bottom > and right of each of these objects (because I passed those in a list > to the thing that generates the array). > > Essentially it's for finding things in an array. You might say I could > do the same thing by iterating through all the elements of an array, > but what if I wanted to do multiple queries? It's easier for me to > write SQL queries than it is to code repeat loops.
I hear ya'. I find myself tempted way more than I have time for to write an xquery-like library for working with arrays. We could sure use one.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
