On May 3, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > I have a customprop, CYPdata, that is an array, each element of which is an > array itself. I am scraping the data to build CYPdata from an HTML page on > the web, and filling it via script by parsing the HTML. There is an odd bug > that I'm trying to get to the bottom of, and something strange is happening > when I do the following in a test button: > > on mouseUp > put the CYPdata of this stack into CYParray > put CYParray["fluvoxamine"] into aFLV > put CYParray["doxepin"] into aDOX > put aFLV is an array into testFLV > put aDOX is an array into testDOX > breakpoint > end mouseUp > > In the debugger variable pane at the breakpoint, expanding the array CYParray > shows the keys, which are a whole list of drugs (as it should be), and each > key/drug is indeed indicated as containing an array (with the little gray > expansion triangle at the left). If I examine CYParray["fluvoxamine"] by > clicking the expansion triangle, it shows the elements of that array, as > expected. Same for CYParray["doxepin"]. The correct data is there in both > cases. However, the aDOX variable does not display as an array (no expansion > triangle) and testDOX = false, whereas aFLV is indeed an array, as displayed > in the debugger and confirmed by testFLV = true. > > What could be going on here? As it happens, the "doxepin" case is handled > differently from the "fluvoxamine" case when I parse the HTML in loading the > array, since they appear in slightly different contexts, so that must be the > source of the difference, but how can the debugger show the "doxepin" array > keys properly but somehow CYParray["doxepin"] not an array? Any ideas?
Peter, instead of trying to store multidimensional arrays "raw" in the custom property; can you use arrayEncode/arrayDecode? I think it might help eliminate issues; so assuming you parse the HTML and you have the data in a multidimensional array variable "CYParray", instead of doing: set the CYPdata of this stack to CYParray do set the CYPdata of this stack to arrayEncode(CYParray) … and then when you're ready to read it: on mouseUp put arrayDecode(the CYPdata of this stack) into CYParray -- changed line put CYParray["fluvoxamine"] into aFLV put CYParray["doxepin"] into aDOX put aFLV is an array into testFLV put aDOX is an array into testDOX breakpoint end mouseUp Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
