Confused about storing arrays in a custom property

[Pete]

Thanks Jan.  I'll try that this afternoon and report back.
Pete
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Jan Schenkel <janschenkel at yahoo.com>wrote:

> You could 'base64Encode' the binary data before storing it, and
> base64decode it after retrieval from the database.
> That way you don't have to worry about BINARY, and can store it in a CLOB.
>
> HTH,
>
> Jan Schenkel.
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> From: Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
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> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 8:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Confused about storing arrays in a custom property
>
> I do store it in a cprop for use during a single run but I have to preserve
> the value between runs so want to store it in an external file. I know
> there
> are ways to do that using separate stacks within standalones - I just
> prefer
> to use an external file rather than that method, especially if I already
> have one open for other purposes.
>
> Trevors' printKeys doesn't quite do the job unfortunately.  It doesn't
> print
> all the keys on each line, just indents depending on the key level.  In my
> case, I need the output for your example to be:
>
> abc<tab>def<tab>xyz
> abc<tab>ghi<tab>qrs
>
> I could probably have used PrintKeys and dealt with the indented format
> when
> recreating the array but it was fun coming up with the algorithm to produce
> the above output, plus it made the reassembly of the array very easy.
>
> Haven't had a chance to experiment with simulating a BINARY column in
> sqlite
> yet but if I find a way to do it, I'll probably go with that method.
>
>
> Pete
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> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:
>
> > interesting. Trevor shared some time ago his printKeys() function so that
> > given:
> >    put "xyz" into aData["abc"]["def"]
> >    put "qrs" into adata["abc"]["ghi"]
> >    put printkeys(aData)
> >
> > you would get:
> > abc
> >     ghi: qrs
> >     def: xyz
> >
> > A similar method could probably be devised to put the data back into an
> > array.
> >
> > All this seems like a lot of trouble though. Why not just store the array
> > in a custom property?
> > set the aArray of this card to aData -- or this stack if it is a single
> > array
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > On Aug 22, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Pete wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Andrew and Bob.  Unfortunately, I'm using an sqlite database and
> > as
> > > far as I can tell from the docs, it doesn't have a binary data type.  I
> > > could define a column as BINARY but it would end up as NUMERIC in
> > sqlite's
> > > world.  I'll give it a whirl though.
> > >
> > > I've actually now written a function to convert a multidimensional
> array
> > > into a string with one line for each of the first level keys and each
> > line
> > > containing the keys separated by tabs, ending up with the value in the
> > > lowest level key.  That way I can just store the text string in the db
> > > without a problem, and I also have a simple command to assemble the
> > strings
> > > into an array when I read them back from the db. So if
> > Array["abc"]["def"]
> > > contains "xyz", the resulting line would be "abc<tab>def<tab>xyz".
> This
> > was
> > > the cause of my other recent posts about what happens when the last
> item
> > in
> > > a string is empty.  Provided some interesting recursion opportunities!
> > >
> > > Pete
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Andrew Kluthe <andrew at rjdfarm.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> It sounds to me like binary is the data type you want here.
> > >>
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