Arrays vs Lists

[David Vaughan]

On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 12:32 AM, Mike McManus wrote:

> I have seen a lot about arrays lately here. So I am wondering.
>
> It seems very simple to address item 2 of line 4 or some such. Or to 
> just repeat "for each line". Not sure what the effective result is of 
> either creating it as an array or splitting it into an array.

As an afterthought triggered by this question and the responses from 
Dar and me, every couple of months this list receives a query along the 
lines of "my repeat with i = 1 to n loop is very slow" to which several 
will chorus "use repeat for each" (as Mike mentions).

So it may be worthwhile mentioning the otherwise obvious inference from 
the array discussion that one way to deal with a large list where you 
want access by line number is first to use RFE to put it into an array 
with enumerated keys, and Bob's your uncle. Slower than RFE for a 
single cycle but fast for repeated direct access to lines not otherwise 
keyed; e.g. indexing into a lookup list via a calculated sequence 
number.

cheers
David

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