Speeding up array initialization

[Dar Scott]

On Saturday, November 22, 2003, at 12:41 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

>> Thanks for the suggestion, but I already tried that : please correct 
>> me if I'm
>> wrong, but it looks like the split command only works for 1 
>> dimensional
>> array. I mean : if the variable contains only 1 line of 
>> comma-separated items,
...
> Remember that Rev's arrays are associative arrays.  While it lets you 
> use
> multi-dimensional syntax, what's really happening is that the key to an
> element is the string "<value>,<value>".

You can change your delimiters in the split, JB.  (The second cannot be 
null, though.)  Build your value to be split appropriately.

There is an enhancement request in bugzilla for nested arrays which can 
be easily used as multidimensional arrays.  The nested array approach 
would allow you to build rows and replicate rows in a style like that 
you used with items in lines.

If you think the speed gets slower as the array gets bigger, you might 
want to experiment with the union command.

Dar Scott