Lists as array elements

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Wed May 8 09:35:01 EDT 2002


David,

Not that I'm aware of. I've stuffed over a million characters into an array,
and Rev didn't blink, so I don't think you'll have any problems.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Vaughan" <drvaughan55 at mac.com>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 1:54 AM
Subject: Lists as array elements


> From a test on a three-line list I gather that there is no problem
> making a list an element in an array. For example, I did this in the
> message box:
>
>    put "Matilda" & return & "or" & return & "Maud" & return into aList
>    put aList into someArray[1]
>    put someArray[1]
>
> which ran to produce the output:
>
>    Matilda
>    or
>    Maud
>
> So far, so good. The idea is to be able to build multiple lists where I
> do not know beforehand how many lists there will be or what will be
> their identity. As each list completes I will write it to a separate
> file.
>
> Before I base my program on stuffing multiple 2000-line lists into an
> array as single elements, does anyone have experience or theoretical
> knowledge that this will collapse?
>
> thanks
> David
>
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