numberFormat affecting array keys???

[jonathandlynch at gmail.com]

I would have thought that A[1] and A[01] would be the same, while A["1"] and A["01"] were different - good to know that is not the case.

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> On Apr 20, 2017, at 8:04 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Bob Sneidar wrote:
> 
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Put this into a button:
> >
> > on mouseUp
> >    set the numberFormat to "00"
> >    repeat with i=1 to 10
> >       put i into myArray [i]
> >       breakpoint
> >    end repeat
> > end mouseUp
> >
> > At the breakpoint examine the array. There will be a 1 in an element
> > with the name... ready??? "01"
> >
> > Okay THAT has GOT to be a bug!!! Why the hell is numberformat
> > modifying the name of the array element?? I haven't done ANY math on
> > it. Apparently the engine DOES!
> 
> I believe that has to do with the evaluation done in the debugger's variable viewer, and not in the array itself.
> 
> Why it happens I can't say, but the array itself seems fine:
> 
> If you get the keys of the array you'll see they're padded with preceding 0s as you'd expect.  And the same is true for the values for each key.
> 
> In fact, when I first tested this I added this just before the end of the handler:
> 
>  put myArray[2]
> 
> ...and I got empty.
> 
> Then I changed that to:
> 
>  put myArray[02]
> 
> ..and I got:
> 
> 02
> 
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> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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