On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 09:44 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 10:08 PM, Mark Brownell wrote:
Maybe I don't understant what you want but check out customPropertySets.
I want to create and populate an array. The arrays can contain numbers or string data that might include LF and paragraph breaks. Anyway I want to save the array and at later times open them as arrays. Although this isn't about operators working on data in arrays it is about changing the capabilities of arrays.
If you mean the array is still there after you save and later open the stack, then I think Monte's suggestion of customPropertySet sounds right.
Let's say that I have an XML document that contains 300 sales transactions. I want to put the XML text of each transaction into 300 separate items of an array. I then would like to save this array as an external file. It wouldn't be saved as text it would be saved as an array file. I could then use answer to open it with my application that could then access it.
If you want to save to a file, then look at split and combine. Since you have numbers, you need to make sure the numberFormat will include as many digits you need. If you have multiline data, you want to be careful of your split/combine delimiters and not use LF. Perhaps some carefully selected control characters will work.
If your arrays also include some binary data and you want to save the data to a file, then split/combine will probably not work, not in general. Let us know if this is the case.
Dar Scott
This is wish list stuff I'm talking about. In Director I have an Xtra plug-in that enables a shockwave app to save lists (arrays) to my hard drive. Later I can access the saved array and load it into a variable. This Xtra plug-in was written in C++ and adds value to the shockwave engine. If they are going to add operators to arrays maybe some day they can add save as array as a feature, meanwhile I can use Valentina and save as a database file of XML text transactions.
Mark
