Alternate Form of printKeys()

[Bob Sneidar]

Hi all. I just wrote an alternate form of printKeys which some may find useful. Normally printKeys returns data in this form:

1
     conferencename: 
     amount: 0
     enddate: 2012-01-15
     conferenceid: 0
     siteid: 2
     baseunit: day
     uniqueid: 8
     clientid: 0
     starttime: 4:00 PM
     baseprice: 0
     building: Harmony
     clientname: 
     discount: 0
     roomid: 49
     rnotes: 
     startdate: 2012-01-12
     endtime: 10:00 AM
     roomnumber: 403
     reservationid: 1
     quantity: 1

This makes it fairly impossible to use the filter command for records based upon certain values being present. My function returns the values in this form:

[1] ["conferencename"] 	,[1] ["amount"] 	0,[1] ["enddate"] 	2012-01-15,[1] ["conferenceid"] 	0,[1] ["siteid"] 	2,[1] ["baseunit"] 	day,[1] ["uniqueid"] 	8,[1] ["clientid"] 	0,[1] ["starttime"] 	4:00 PM,[1] ["baseprice"] 	0,[1] ["building"] 	Harmony,[1] ["clientname"] 	,[1] ["discount"] 	0,[1] ["roomid"] 	49,[1] ["rnotes"] 	,[1] ["startdate"] 	2012-01-12,[1] ["endtime"] 	10:00 AM,[1] ["roomnumber"] 	403,[1] ["reservationid"] 	1,[1] ["quantity"] 	1

The beauty of this is if I had a lot of lines and only wanted data that had "2012-" in the line I could:

filter theText with "*" & tab & "2012-" & "*" -- the tab is the value delimiter

I can then convert the text back into an array using another function, and voila! A subset of the original array! If anyone is interested in this let me know, otherwise I won't waste bandwidth on it. It is mainly useful for doing filtering on datagrid data. Sure I could do the same thing with the dgText, but as I have mentioned before, I have columns of data that do not display in the datagrid, and dgText only returns the visible columns of text. I need to preserve the array structure. 

Bob