Arrays: new and old keys, i

[Colin Holgate]

On Sep 13, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Mark Brownell wrote:

> It's been a while but I believe that that ordering is how the Lists  
> worked in Director. You didn't assign them key names. They could  
> have parameters too, divided by ":"  You just put data into an  
> ordered spot. To be honest I like the non order sometimes, the way  
> it is in Rev.

Director has lists and property lists. With a list you would need to  
understand the order of the data (which you can sort if you like),  
with property lists you don't. You can also have lists of lists, and  
use a dot syntax to get the properties. Here's some examples of how  
you deal with it:

peoplelist = [[name:"Tom",height:"72",city:"New York"], 
[name:"Dick",height:"68",city:"San Francisco"], 
[name:"Harry",height:"74",city:"New York"]]

put peoplelist
-- [[#name: "Tom", #height: "72", #city: "New York"], [#height:  
"68",#name: "Dick",  #city: "San Francisco"], [#name: "Harry",  
#height: "74", #city: "New York"]]

put peoplelist[1].name
-- "Tom"
put peoplelist[2].name
-- "Dick"

put peoplelist[3]
-- [#name: "Harry", #height: "74", #city: "New York"]

You'll notice that it didn't matter where the #name entry was, the  
name was still found ok.