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From: faulkner@scdpyr.UUCP (Bill Faulkner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HyperCard arrays
Message-ID: <191@scdpyr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 10:09:50 EST
Article-I.D.: scdpyr.191
Posted: Mon Oct 26 10:09:50 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Oct-87 23:06:04 EST
References: <173@stech.UUCP>
Organization: Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
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In article <173@stech.UUCP>, sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes:

> HyperTalk doesn't directly support arrays.  Is there some way to get the
> same effect (by using variables names like VName & k, where k contains
> a number that changes?)?  Has anyone come across this yet and found a
> good solution?

One thing that would work, but isn't really elegant is to create an
invisable field and use the various lines as elements of the array.
The refernce to this would be similar to:

	add 23 to line k of field "Array"

You could even extend this to two dimensions by using the word of a line,
such as

	put 5 into word i of line j of field "2-D Array"

Does anybody know of a better solution?
-- 
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