arrays with merge

[Peter Haworth]

Well I missed the countdown so I'll +1your post.

Pete
lcSQL Software
On Jun 5, 2015 7:04 AM, "Ralph DiMola" <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net> wrote:

> 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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