On 2/28/05 7:13 PM, Raymond E. Griffith wrote:
>>I know that the "combine" command will yield a list that is not in any
>>particular order. However, I always thought the "split" command would
>>split out the keys in the order of the original list.
>
>
> Actually there *is* an order with the combine command. The order, however,
> is alphabetic instead of numeric, even though the keys are numerically
> indexed.
I get something different, but more on that below.
>
> So a list of 11 items that you split, as
>
> put "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11" into myArray
> split myarray by comma
>
> does indeed get indexed as myArray[1] = 1, myArray[2] = 2, etc. myArray[11]
> = 11.
That's what I needed verified. Thanks. I was pretty sure this was the case, and I haven't ever seen arrays behave any differently till now, but was hoping to blame my problems on something other than my own scripts. ;) I will start digging, since the problem is obviously on my side.
> > >>I am getting some odd results on this though. Most of the time it works, >> but some of the time I appear to get a random order. Before I start >>debugging the problem -- which could very well be in my scripts >>somewhere -- I was wondering if anyone else has noticed whether the >>split command can give non-ordered keys? > > > The keys are returned in an alphabetic order, not a numeric order. The > return order would be > > 1, 10, 11, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
I've heard they are based on a hash table rather than alphabetic. Here are the first few lines of the keys in my array :
286 35 287 36 288 37 300 290 289 38 301 291 39 40 302 292 41
etc.
> > If you are using word-based key names, as myArray[textfont], then the > alphabetic return will indeed appear to be random.
Same hash table, I think.
Anyway, thanks for the verification on split, it helps. I'm now off to the debugging chamber.
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