Interesting - thanks! Associative arrays should be perfect for what I need.
What would be the advantage to indexed arrays over associative arrays - are they more quickly accessed? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 4:19 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Question regarding arrays... Lynch, Jonathan wrote: > I thought I read in past postings that Rev did not support 3D arrays - > that it only supported up to 2D arrays. > > This morning I tested that, and seemed to have no problem with 3D > arrays. I am sure I am just making an ignorant mistake - either in my > testing or in what I gathered from the postings I read - but could > someone clarify the issue? The issue is with "2D" and "3D" nomenclature, which can be misleading when trying to understand working with arrays in Rev. Rev currently uses associative arrays, which allow a string to be a label associated with a data element. That label string can be numeric giving you ordered elements, and can can include commas to give you some of the convenience of multi-dimensional arrays. Just remember it's always a string: myArray[1,2] is the same as myArray["1,2"]. Associative arrays are flexible, useful in a great many circumstances that indexed arrays might be harder to work with. There is a request in Bugzilla for fully-dimensional indexed arrays, and that'll be nifty when it's there, but in the meantime hopefull associative arrays will continue doing what you need. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation __________________________________________________ Rev tools and more: http://www.fourthworld.com/rev _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
