assign by reference (arrays)?

Ken Norris pixelbird at interisland.net
Fri Mar 22 12:52:01 EST 2002


> also work - but in my real application, the arrays get pretty
>large, so I don't really want to be copying them twice every time round a
>50,000 iteration loop.
>
>Anyway, I think we've agreed that there are a lot of workarounds, so I'm not
>complaining (this wasn't a message to improve-rev) - I was checking in case
>there was a way to assign by reference, which I'd missed.
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Excuse me if this is way off-base, but why don't you put a variable name 
among the array items. This way you can do a simple "Find", much easier 
and faster than other ways of searching the array.



Best regards,
Ken N.




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