Collapse (?) An Array?

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I totally get what the OP wants, code-wise, I just cannot help make
it happen, but perhaps I can put it in my terms and help someone more
knowledgeable than me help him. 

What he is saying, is that when a
variable is deleted from within the array, he needs the entire array
re-ordered (sorted) and moved up a notch to account for the now deleted
variable. 

So, if A,B,C,D is the array with positions 1,2,3,4 

and you
delete array variable 2 

It will now look like this: 

A,C,D 

and the
array numbers are now: 

1,3,4 

He needs it to be 

A,C,D 

and 

1,2,3


The C is now 2 and the D is now 3, so on and so forth across however
large the array is. 

Now, does one simply re-write the array once the
deletion is made? 

Not sure. 

Note - if this is for a database and you
are dealing with IDs, then DO NOT RE-ORDER ANYTHING - you will break the
database (well, not literally until you do a SAVE - then you really will
break it). Just leave it as is. Databases can eventually be re-ordered
(re-indexed) once they are too large and riddled with holes, but until
then, just leave it alone. 

Mike 

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 14:27:44 +0100,
Dave Cragg wrote: 

> On 1 Sep 2011, at 14:16, Dave Cragg wrote:
> 
>>
It seems using any key on an existing array will produce an empty value.
(I don't know if that's how it should behave. I guess the alternative
would be throwing an error.)
> 
> Update: it seems the array doesn't
even need to exist. This also produces the same result:
> 
> put "A"
into theArray[1]
> put "B" into theArray[2]
> put "C" into theArray[3]
>
delete variable theArray[2]
> put theArray[1] &"*"&otherArray[7] &"*"&
theArray[3]
> 
> Cheers
> Dave
> 
>
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