LC7 arrayEncode/Decode

[William Prothero]

Richard:
By the way, the fix was to do:
put myVal into myArray[“1”][“name”] instead of myArray[1][“name”]
Bill

> On May 4, 2015, at 11:43 AM, William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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