Arrays: new and old keys, i

Mark Brownell gizmotron at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 13 13:47:42 EDT 2008


-----Original Message-----
>From: Colin Holgate <coiin at rcn.com>

>On Sep 13, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Mark Brownell wrote:
>
>> Wow, this is all coming back to me. The discussion list would fire  
>> up with two or three chiming in, in just a few seconds/minutes with  
>> work arounds for coding with lists and parameter lists. There were  
>> always these, beat ya moments.
>
>I'm not sure whether a beat ya moment is a good thing! It sounds  
>painful anyway. Meanwhile, here's a Rev v3 example on the lines of the  
>Director one I just gave:
>
>put "name Tom,height 72,city New York" into avar
>split avar by comma and space
>put avar into allnames[1]
>put "height 68,name Dick,city San Francisco" into avar
>split avar by comma and space
>put avar into allnames[2]
>put "name Harry,height 74,city New York" into avar
>split avar by comma and space
>put avar into allnames[3]
>put allnames[2]["name"]
>
>Dick

arg! it's already starting. You are the beat master already. I'm going to have to think. 

Nice.

Mark




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