Array keys oddity?

[Björnke von Gierke]

Hi

I am not sure what your problem is, but i can assure you that  
everything works fine (i tested your code verbatim, only replace 10  
with 20). My guess is that you expect the keys to be in some order.  
However the keys will never be ordered by default, and in a seemingly  
random order which optimises the speed of access. Factors in this are:

the name of the array
the name of the keys
the length of each key, element and total array
the place the array is stored in memory

also see the documentation entry about "the keys". If you want to have  
them in a specific order, you'd need to sort them.

björnke



On 5 Jun 2009, at 17:36, DunbarX at aol.com wrote:

> OK, just started playing with arrays, and as usual stopped cold  
> after 5
> minutes.
>
> I have a card with a "field 1" and button containing the following  
> script:
>
> on mouseup
>    put "" into fld 1
>    repeat with y = 1 to 10
>       put y & "-" & random(99)   into line y of tArray
>    end repeat
>    put tArray & return into fld 1
>    split tArray with return and "-"
>    put the keys of tArray   after   fld 1
> end mouseup

...

> This has to be me and my understanding of what the keys
> really are. I tried to make as accessable a first array as I could,  
> and as usual,
> well, anyway, I can't wait to see...


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