You've practically designed it!
Arrays are your friend.
{ below not tested}
function yourFunction arrayVar
put Timestamp & tab & "FDSFSDF" into myArray[garbage]
put "toad" into myArray[green]
return myArray
end yourFunction
put yourFunction() into Array
combine array with return and tab
put Array
-->
garbage<tab>20080923<tab>FDSFSDF
green<tab>toad
To get the number of elements in an array:
number of lines in myArray
even better ( I love this one - think binary):
repeat for each line tKey in the keys of tArray
put tArray[tKey] & return after tArrayContents
end repeat
to sort:
put the keys of myArray into myVariable
sort lines of myVariable
I'm having trouble sorting this out. I have a function that searches through
lines of tab delimited text. The number of lines varies from one to ten. The
result from the search is two things. A data element and a pointer that says
which kind of data element. Sometimes the result is one data element and one
pointer and sometimes the result is another quantity like three data
elements each with their identifier. To have this returned by the function
it seems I need an array. I'm inexperienced at using arrays but I imagine
that you just build it in the function and that is what is returned and then
the identifiers for each data element are the keys and it makes no
difference how many lines are in the array? Perhaps I also return a counter
which says how many lines of data are in the array?
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stephen barncard
s a n f r a n c i s c o
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