searching an array?

[Mike Bonner]

it might be possible to arrayencode the array and search that.  If its a
text only search it doesn't look like this should be too awful bad as long
as key names and text entries stay clear text (it seems they do)  Looking
at the data there is a definite pattern.  Would it be worth it?  Probably
not.  Maybe switch to using sqlite (or an in-memory sqlite db if that
better fits requirement) and use select with that.

Or rather than seek through the whole array each time, maybe write your own
indexing routines and keep running indexes going any time the array is
modified. Not that I have a clue how to actually do that.


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Andrew Kluthe <andrew at ctech.me> wrote:

> Not that I have seen or come across. Although, people on the list come up
> with some pretty neat (and fast) search routines for things.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffield at icloud.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Okay array experts. I need help. :-)
> >
> > Is there any way to search and/or filter an array? I'm not finding
> > anything in the docs, but I probably don't know what I'm looking for. My
> > only thought was to use combine to convert the array to a list, and then
> > use the filter command to locate what I need. But there's a problem with
> > this... My array is multidimensional, and combine doesn't work.
> >
> > So short of iterating through each array element, is there any other way
> > to do this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
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