Accessing Multidimensional Arrays

Mark Brownell gizmotron at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 3 21:42:00 EDT 2003


On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 03:05  PM, Sharon Stamps wrote:

> I am interested in creating several large, multidimensional arrays 
> within my stack (I’m creating a diagnostic testing program).  What I 
> want to do is add info to and remove info from these arrays during the 
> use of the program, and then, when the user completes the test, pipe 
> the information contained in the arrays to a text file for teacher 
> assessment.  Is there a quick and painless way to do this?  So far I 
> have been able to create and edit the values of the dimensions of the 
> arrays just fine, but the end text file baffles me.  I have toyed with 
> the idea of using a function or a repeat loop to obtain the values to 
> put into the file, but I was hoping there would be an easier way. 
>  There isn’t much documentation on arrays, so I would really 
> appreciate any suggestions!

Sharon,

I did some array manipulations in an example:

put: go url "http://www.gizmotron.org/frogbreath.rev" into the message 
window with an active internet connection. ... hit return

Not sure this will help but there it is.

Mark



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