Dave wrote:
When I read the part quoted above in the documentation I thought for a moment that myArray[17] was some special usage and wasted times checking that it worked the way I thought it worked. There is really no point in describing the RunRev type of Array in these terms since there is no element 17 or any other numeric index.
Under "delete variable", the docs say: "The arrayIndex is a key of an array variable. If an arrayIndex is specified instead of a variable name, the delete variable command removes that element of the array, without deleting the rest of the elements in the array."
It seems pretty clear that the delete command will remove an array element with the key you specify. That's how associative arrays work.
Whoever wrote the documentation didn't understand how Arrays in RunRev work.
That would be hard to believe. Jeanne DeVoto, who wrote most of the documentation, is one of the foremost documentation experts on xtalk scripting, starting with HyperCard, where she was one of the authors of the definitive reference book for that program. She has been working with the language for 20 years, and I'm certain she understands how arrays work in Revolution. But if you haven't worked much with associative arrays, I can see how it could be confusing.
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