Simple Arrays

Jim Ault jimaultwins at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 11 12:23:33 EST 2010


You can use
combine
split
to work with arrays of data, but if you do speed tests, you will find  
that repeat loops + chunking are just as fast and have more power,  
such as extracting more that one column, shuffling the column order  
while gathering, reformatting, error checking, etc

Jim Ault
Las Vegas



On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> Great responses on the subject of arrays. I gather then that my  
> attempt to "trick" revolution into giving me a column of data  
> without using repeat loops is ill fated. Since I am working with  
> data grids, I was hoping to get a column of data without going  
> through much trouble.
>
> Really, I just need to write a function that does this, or use the  
> example provided by Phil Davis (thanks Phil.)
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Michael Kann wrote:
>
>> Bob, Maybe we can learn something about arrays together.
>







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