interesting. Trevor shared some time ago his printKeys() function so that given:
put "xyz" into aData["abc"]["def"]
put "qrs" into adata["abc"]["ghi"]
put printkeys(aData)
you would get:
abc
ghi: qrs
def: xyz
A similar method could probably be devised to put the data back into an array.
All this seems like a lot of trouble though. Why not just store the array in a
custom property?
set the aArray of this card to aData -- or this stack if it is a single array
Bob
On Aug 22, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Pete wrote:
> Thanks Andrew and Bob. Unfortunately, I'm using an sqlite database and as
> far as I can tell from the docs, it doesn't have a binary data type. I
> could define a column as BINARY but it would end up as NUMERIC in sqlite's
> world. I'll give it a whirl though.
>
> I've actually now written a function to convert a multidimensional array
> into a string with one line for each of the first level keys and each line
> containing the keys separated by tabs, ending up with the value in the
> lowest level key. That way I can just store the text string in the db
> without a problem, and I also have a simple command to assemble the strings
> into an array when I read them back from the db. So if Array["abc"]["def"]
> contains "xyz", the resulting line would be "abc<tab>def<tab>xyz". This was
> the cause of my other recent posts about what happens when the last item in
> a string is empty. Provided some interesting recursion opportunities!
>
> Pete
> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Andrew Kluthe <and...@rjdfarm.com> wrote:
>
>> It sounds to me like binary is the data type you want here.
>>
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