LC7 arrayEncode/Decode

[William Prothero]

Richard:
You may be right about inconsistent formatting in the array.
I started the array with:
put myVal into myArray[1][“name”]
Then later do:
put myNextVa; into myArray[“i”][“name”], where i is an index in a repeat loop So, one would have an integer and the others would be a string of an integer.

I did the fix and it worked fine.
Still a bug? Seems it should still return the original array.
Best,
Bill

> On May 3, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
> William Prothero wrote:
> 
> > I found an oddity with arrayEncode and arrayDecode, When I saved an
> > array to a file, first using arrayEncode(myArray), wrote it out as
> >
> > put arrayEncode(myArray) into theEncodedArray
> > put theEncodedArray into URL(“binfile:”&myfile)
> >
> >  and then read it back in using
> > put URL(“binfile:”&myFile) into theEncodedArray
> > put arrayDecode(theEncodedArray) into myArray
> >
> > myArray has the first element as a blank entry. It’s not the same
> > array as I started with.
> >
> > My array looks like myArray[1][“name”], myArray[2][“name”], etc
> >
> > This seems like a bug to me. I didn’t get any satisfaction when I set
> > the storage method as text, but then again, I couldn’t find a lesson
> > where that format was specified. But, it seems like whether it’s
> > binary or not, it should still read back in and decode correctly.
> 
> It might be a bug, but like many here I do a LOT of work with arrays, and with so much user testing, combined with that part of the engine's code base being somewhat isolated, I'd double-check the recipe first before submitting a bug report.
> 
> Unexpected keys can sometimes arise from running split on data that's inconsistently formatted.
> 
> How is the array created?
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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