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Posted: **Mon May 13, 2019 3:55 pm**

Hello,

I can't figure how to dynamically add an element at the end of an array.
My array comes from an XML file and looks like this:

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first level[1]
	sublevel[1]
	sublevel[2]
	...
	sublevel[n]
first level[2]
	...

Each sublevel is also an array, and I would like to add sublevel[n+1] in level[1]
Something equivalent to PHP:

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$myArray[] = $newElement;

Or to Applescript:

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set end of myList to newItem

Thank you.

Posted: **Mon May 13, 2019 4:30 pm**

Bonjour Zax,

I think this will be
...
put the keys of level[1] into tK
put tK + 1 into N
put "whatever" into level1[1]level2[N]
...
Out of my head, so no guarantee!

Best

Klaus

Posted: **Mon May 13, 2019 4:33 pm**

@Zax: The simplest way to do this is:

put tNewElement into tArray[the number of elements in tArray + 1]

This can be a little bit verbose (particularly if its a deep array) so you can use a simple function to do it:

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command pushOntoBackOfArray @xArray, pElement
  put pElement into xArray[the number of elements in xArray + 1]
end pushOntoBackOfArray

[ EDIT: I should point out that the above assumes that xArray is numerically indexed, starting at one and has all indices - which it looks like what you have ]

Posted: **Mon May 13, 2019 4:46 pm**

Not rather:

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command pushOntoBackOfArray @xArray, pElement
  put pElement into xArray[the number of elements in xArray + 1]
end pushOntoBackOfArray

?

Posted: **Mon May 13, 2019 4:49 pm**

@Klaus - indeed - corrected

Posted: **Mon May 13, 2019 4:53 pm**

Almost, try again!

Hint: xList <> xArray

Posted: **Mon May 13, 2019 9:07 pm**

@LCMark: Any chance we'll see indexed arrays as an option in LCS?

Posted: **Tue May 14, 2019 8:13 am**

Thanks for your answers.

My array comes from this kind of XML file:

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<countries>
	<country>
		<pop>12000000</pop>
		<gdp>58621</gdp>
	</country>
	<country>
		<pop>5000000</pop>
		<gdp>1453613</gdp>
	</country>
	...
	<country>
		<pop>24000000</pop>
		<gdp>521155</gdp>
	</country>
</countries>

The array is populated by revXMLChildNames() function, and is not numerically indexed.
It looks like:

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countries
	country[1]
		pop
		gdp
	country[2]
		pop
		gdp
	...
	country[n]
		pop
		gdp

And I would like add a new "country" at the end of "countries" array.

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command pushOntoBackOfArray @xArray, pElement
  put pElement into xArray[the number of elements in xArray + 1]
end pushOntoBackOfArray

As LCMark said, this code only works for numerically indexed arrays.

In the same way, I will also have to remove a "country" in my array...

Posted: **Tue May 14, 2019 11:07 am**

Hi Zax,

I will make a guess here that this:

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countries
	country[1]
		pop
		gdp
	country[2]
		pop
		gdp
	...
	country[n]
		pop
		gdp

Is not the correct format of your array and is more like this:

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countries
	France
		pop
		gdp
	Germany
		pop
		gdp
	...
	Greece
		pop
		gdp

This would make more sense.
In that case you can just do the following to delete a country:

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delete variable tCountriesArray["countries"]["France"]

Or to append data:

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put 6265 into tCountriesArray["countries"]["France"]["gdp"]

Or create a function:

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function editCountriesArray pCommand, @pArray, pCountry, pData
   switch pCommand
      case "delete"
         delete variable pArray["countries"][pCountry]
         break
      case "appendGdp"
         # if pCountry vaiable does not exist, it will be created.
         put pData into pArray["countries"][pCountry]["gdp"]
         break
      case "appendPop"
         # if pCountry vaiable does not exist, it will be created.
         put pData into pArray["countries"][pCountry]["pop"]
         break
   end switch
end test
end editCountiesArray

In any case, i don't see why you need to add an element at the end of the array if your array is not numerically indexed. Maybe what you are looking for is a way to sort the array.

Posted: **Tue May 14, 2019 12:04 pm**

Hello zaxos,

Nope, my array looks like I said.
You can try with this script:

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   put "<?xml version=" & quote & "1.0" & quote && "encoding=" & quote & "utf-8" & quote && "?><countries>" & \
         "<country><name>France</name><pop>12000000</pop></country>" & \
         "<country><name>Greece</name><pop>5000000</pop></country>" & \
         "<country><name>England</name><pop>24000000</pop></country>" & \
         "</countries>" into xmlText
   put revXMLCreateTree(XMLText, true, true) into xmlId
   if xmlId is an integer then
      put revXMLChildNames(xmlId, "countries", return, "country", true) into arrCountries
   else answer "Bad XML data."

I built my array according to this LC lesson:
http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/70 ... n-xml-file

zaxos wrote: ↑
Tue May 14, 2019 11:07 am
In that case you can just do the following to delete a country:
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delete variable tCountriesArray["countries"]["France"]

Great! Thank you.

Posted: **Tue May 14, 2019 12:15 pm**

I finally find a dirty solution, but it seems to work:

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on endArray @arr, newElement, elementName
   put elementName & "[" & (( the number of elements in arr) + 1) & "]" into nextElementName
   put newElement into arr[nextElementName]
end endArray

Posted: **Thu May 16, 2019 5:28 pm**

The source XML example above contains only pop and gdp elements, with no name. How do you match the names with that data?

Posted: **Fri May 17, 2019 8:53 am**

In both examples, function to add en element would be called like this:

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put "45000" into arrNewElement["pop"]
put "22000000" into arrNewElement["gdp"]
endArray arrCountries, arrNewElement, "country"

In example on page http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/70 ... n-xml-file
it would be:

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endArray tRecentDocuments, arrNewElement, "recentDocument"

But this function only works if the array to modify is well formated. A safer way is to copy the array:

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on endArray @arr, newElement, elementName
   put "" into newArray
   put 0 into tCounter
   
   repeat for each element elt in arr
      add 1 to tCounter
      put elementName & "[" & tCounter & "]" into nextElementName
      put elt into newArray[nextElementName]
   end repeat

   put elementName & "[" & (tCounter + 1) & "]" into nextElementName
   put newElement into newArray[nextElementName]
   
   put newArray into arr
end endArray

Posted: **Wed May 22, 2019 9:20 am**

I think what FourthWorld is saying is that right now you have an array that has its index keys in the following format:

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tArray["country1"]
tArray["country2"]
tArray["country3"]...

That makes no sense since the only way you could add data to this array is either if you knew somehow which country is stored in "country1" key or if you iterate through all the keys with a repeat and find out the country ( which i assume is what you are doing ). I assume you are following that strategy because of the tutorial you've read ( i haven't checked it ) but there is no need to go strictly by it, you can adapt to your needs.
In the example i provided, country name is the index key:

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tArray["France"]
tArray["Greece"]
tArray["Germany"]

So instead of repeating through all the keys to find out where "France" is stored, you can just do:

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put "45000" into tArray["France"]["pop"]

Your xml would look something like this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<countries>

<France>
   <gdp>5000</gdp>
   <pop>12000000</pop>
</France>

<Greece>
   <gdp>5000</gdp>
   <pop>5000000</pop>
</Greece>

<England>
   <gdp>5000</gdp>
   <pop>24000000</pop>
</England>

</countries>

You don't need to add a "Country" node, you already know these are countries since they are under <countries> node if that's your concern.

Posted: **Thu May 23, 2019 8:22 am**

Sorry if I didn't understand the question.

Let's forget my examples, and go back to my initial question.
Following this XML lesson http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/70 ... n-xml-file, we have an array like this:

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recentDocuments
	recentDocument[1]
	recentDocument[2]
	recentDocument[3]

I didn't realize integers between brackets was treated as string, and this kind of array was an fully associative array. I wanted to add the element recentDocument[4], so I finally wrote this command:

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on endArray @arr, newElement, elementName
   put "" into newArray
   put 0 into tCounter
   
   repeat for each element elt in arr
      add 1 to tCounter
      put elementName & "[" & tCounter & "]" into nextElementName
      put elt into newArray[nextElementName]
   end repeat

   put elementName & "[" & (tCounter + 1) & "]" into nextElementName
   put newElement into newArray[nextElementName]
   
   put newArray into arr
end endArray

In the above example, this command is called with:

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endArray tRecentDocuments, arrNewElement, "recentDocument"

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