Building array from list

[Mike Bonner]

Oh, might want to set the array to empty prior to the repeat so you
avoid duplicates if you run the conversion more than once.

On 11/1/10, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can also do it as follows:
>
>    repeat for each line tLine in field 1
>       put the number of items in tdataA[(item 2 of tLine)] + 1 into
> tItemNum
>       put item 1 of tLine into item tItemNum of tDataA[(item 2 of tLine)]
>    end repeat
>
> Can most likely combine the 2 lines of the repeat into a 1 liner, but
> this way works fine.
>
> On 11/1/10, Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca> wrote:
>> Hello William,
>>
>> This will give you an array with four keys corresponding to [1] fruit,
>> [2]
>> dances, [3] colours, and [4] animals.
>>
>> repeat for each line thisLine in theList
>> put the first item of thisLine & comma after myArray[the second item of
>> thisLine]
>> end repeat
>>
>> The contents of each has a trailing comma, which can be removed by
>> following
>> with
>>
>> repeat for each key thisKey in myArray
>> if the last character of myArray[thisKey] is comma \
>> then delete the last character of myArray[thisKey]
>> end repeat
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gregory
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010, at 8:15 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering. If you have a list:
>>>
>>> apple,1
>>> orange,1
>>> grapefruit,1
>>> tango,2
>>> blue,3
>>> green,3
>>> yellow,3
>>> zebra,9
>>>
>>> And you want to convert it into an array:
>>>
>>> (apple,orange,grapefruit[1])
>>> (tango[2])
>>> (blue,green,yellow[3])
>>> (zebra,[9])
>>>
>>> What would be the easiest way. I'm always a little confused by arrays
>>> but
>>> it
>>> seems to me this should be a very simple and fast conversion. The array
>>> is
>>> intentionally a string "apple,orange,grapefruit" that results from key
>>> [1]
>>
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