arrays with merge

[Ralph DiMola]

5,4,3,2,1.... Here comes Peter with "Always use strict compilation mode"
Followed by my +1

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net


-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Mike Bonner
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 9:42 AM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: arrays with merge

As ali said, the unquoted key is only an issue if there is a declared
variable, at which point the key becomes whatever is in that variable. (or
if its a keyword of course)

I use the "store the string elsewhere" method.  When creating merge strings
for later use, I either create them using the property inspector, or put
them into a field and set a property to the field.

The other option mentioned is pretty helpful.  Put in an unquoted key, and
set the value of it as a variable.  This can be pretty handy because you can
change which key you want to look at on the fly.

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 3:32 AM, Ali Lloyd <ali at runrev.com> wrote:

> Yes, that is LiveCode 'unquoted literal' mechanism -
>
> It is the same as, for example, (if you have strict compilation off)
>
> *put* tTest & "sdfsdf" -- puts tTestsdfsdf into the message box
>
>
> When a variable has not been declared, any tokens that are not 
> keywords are treated as strings.
>
> On 5 June 2015 at 10:26, Terence Heaford <t.heaford at icloud.com> wrote:
>
> > Interestingly it works without quotes around test.
> >
> > It does work but should it?
> >
> > This suggests the only reason for quotes in array keys is in case 
> > you
> have
> > a two word key?
> >
> > put merge("SELECT [[tColumns]] FROM '[[tTable]]' [[myArray[test]]]
> > [[tSortOrder]]") into tSQL
> >
> >
> > All the best
> >
> > Terry
> >
> > > On 5 Jun 2015, at 10:13, Ali Lloyd <ali at runrev.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > put merge("SELECT [[tColumns]] FROM '[[tTable]]' 
> > > [[myArray["test"]]]
> > > [[tSortOrder]]") into tSQL
> > >
> > > doesn't work is  the double quote around "test". Merge should work 
> > > fine with arrays (I should know because bug 11274 was one of the 
> > > first I
> ever
> > > fixed!)
> > >
> > > You can either use & and quote to build the correct string
> >
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