Question about keys

[Dennis Brown]

Thanks Brian/Alex,

That is a simple method.  I think I will restructure my data and then  
use this method with a smaller array.

Dennis

On Jul 31, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Brian Yennie wrote:

> Dennis,
>
> I don't believe there is an automatic way of doing what you want  
> (short of changing your data structure, which may not be an  
> option). However, the below should be a pretty quick hack if my  
> brain is working well enough in email land:
>
> put keys(myArray) into tKeys
> split tKeys using return and comma
> put keys(tKeys) into xValues
>
> - Brian
>
>
>> All,
>>
>> I have a two dimensional array:  array[x,y]
>> I need to get the unique x keys into a list, there are about 20  
>> unique ones, but they are dynamically created names (not numbers).
>> The y keys have tens of thousands of elements.
>>
>> Is there a simple way to extract the unique x without iterating  
>> through all the tens of thousands of keys?
>>
>> I could restructure my code so that I keep a list of unique keys  
>> as I create them, but this is more complex and could get out of  
>> sync since I create the elements from many different places in the  
>> code.
>>
>> I could also have a second array that keeps some of the  
>> information without as many entries.
>>
>> However, I would prefer keeping everything in one place (it is a  
>> global) if I can, but I can't think of an easy and fast method.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dennis
>>
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