Strange array behavior

[Richard Gaskin]

Peter M. Brigham wrote:
> So it appears that the array-ness disappears when you empty the array by whatever method.

Looks like my hunch was wrong.  I must have misunderstood the behavior 
you noted in the first post:

> I have a script local variable which is an array plus a set of handlers in
> the script to maintain it.  The array has 2 levels of key, the first being
> a number and the second being various text values.
>
> This set up has been working fine for a long time but I just wrote some new
> code which calls the array handlers to insert new keys.  At the end of the
> new code, I see that the array is empty, in other words it has no keys; it
> is keyless; it's an ex array.
>
> When I step through the code that inserts keys into the array in debug, I
> see the disclosure triangle appear in the debug variables tab after the
> line to insert a key is executed but as soon as I click on the disclosure
> triangle, it disappears and the array is empty again.
>
> The normal inspiration for a solution to weird problems like this (a glass
> of good 15 year old Scotch) has not yet yielded any revelations and I'm at
> the point of diminishing returns, so I'm hoping someone out there might
> have run into this or be able to suggest some possible solutions.

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