Yes please! ###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.###
On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
