item delimiter defaults

[Peter Haworth]

Yes,  I've written functions to do that but worry about doing it on large
data sets.

I think redoing the db layer was one of the Kickstarter goals so maybe
we'll see this turn up.

Pete
lcSQL Software
On Nov 21, 2013 9:27 PM, "Monte Goulding" <monte at sweattechnologies.com>
wrote:

>
> On 22/11/2013, at 3:33 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
> > I agree that arrays are better. Now if only LC would return an array of
> > data returned from a database query, main key record number,  subkey
> column
> > name, we might not need this new column entity.
>
> It's pretty easy to write a function to turn a query into an array like
> that. Depending on the amount of data you're dealing with it may or may not
> be a good idea to get it all into one variable like that. The reason why
> revdb doesn't have an option like that is probably because
> multi-dimensional arrays aren't supported by the externals sdk... at least
> not the one revdb is written in. The new one does although I haven't played
> with it as it's only been un-#ifdef'ed out recently.
>
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