Using numbers to access elements in arrays

Mark Brownell gizmotron at earthlink.net
Thu Aug 7 11:51:00 EDT 2003


On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 08:48  AM, Devin Asay wrote:

> What SEEMS to be happening--I'm still trying to pin it down--is that 
> the revExecuteSQL command is grabbing elements from the array in the 
> order in which they were created--traditional array 
> behavior--regardless of the key names (which happen to be numerals) 
> that I assigned to them earlier. So what ends up in the table is in 
> this order:
>
>  stuff junk nonsense fluff rubbish

You might try pre-populating the array with empty space elements before 
loading it. This might preset an order that will be retained.

   repeat with i = 1 to 50
     put " " into myArray[i]
   end repeat

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