Re: Suggested datatype for getting latest information from log files

2016-02-11 Thread ltomassmail
On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 6:16:35 PM UTC, jmp wrote: > On 02/11/2016 07:07 PM, ltomassm...@gmail.com wrote: > > I thought a dictionary would be a good idea because of the key restrictions > > ensuring no duplicates, so the data would always update - However because > > they are unordered

Re: Suggested datatype for getting latest information from log files

2016-02-11 Thread ltomassmail
On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 6:16:35 PM UTC, jmp wrote: > On 02/11/2016 07:07 PM, ltomassm...@gmail.com wrote: > > I thought a dictionary would be a good idea because of the key restrictions > > ensuring no duplicates, so the data would always update - However because > > they are unordered

Suggested datatype for getting latest information from log files

2016-02-11 Thread ltomassmail
I have timestamped log files I need to read through and keep track of the most upto date information. For example lets say we had a log file timeStamp,name,marblesHeld,timeNow,timeSinceLastEaten I need to keep track of every 'name' in this table, I don't want duplicate values so if values com