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From: mg2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Andrew Gelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: arrays/subscripts allowed?
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Date: 17 Mar 91 20:40:59 GMT
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> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.mac.hypercard: 16-Mar-91
> arrays/subscripts allowed? jvance@desire.wright.edu (658)

> Does hypercard admit anything like arrays, or variables with one or 

> more subscripts, as in x(5), y(23,17), etc?

Not as such, but you can fake it with chunking.  So that:
	Array(4) --> word 4 of Array
Or
	Array(2,5) --> word 5 of line 2 of Array

(If there is anything cleaner, I don't know about it.  I'd be interested
to hear.)

Yours Chunkily,
Michael A. Gelman (mg2x@andrew.cmu.edu)
Student Programmer/Consultant -- Faculty Software Development Lab
Carnegie Mellon University,  Pittsburgh, PA