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merge two arrays
Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 11:47 pm
by kimberlyn
Hi, I have to arrays containing strings tab1 and tab2.
I want to put the content of tab1 into tab2 but I have an error i can't fix :S !
Mu code is
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repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines in the keys of tab1
put tab1[i] after tab2
end repeat
I also tried
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put the keys of tab1 into theKeys
repeat for each item aLine in theKeys
put aLine into tab2
end repeat
Re: merge two arrays
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 12:10 am
by bn
kimberlyn,
if you want to duplicate the array tab1 with all its content you could just say
put tab1 into tab2
tab2 is contains a copy of tab1, both are now arrays with the same content and the same keys. In case tab2 was not used before in the handler it would be created and be an array thereafter because you put an array into it.
if you want to copy content from array tab1 to array tab2 then you could do
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repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines in the keys of tab1
put tab1[i] into tab2[i]
end repeat
this replaces whatever content there was in tab2
if you want to append the content of array tab1 to the content of array tab2 then you could do
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repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines in the keys of tab1
put tab1[i] after tab2[i]
end repeat
this appends the content of tab1
to the content of tab2
If this is not what you are looking for you would have to explain in more detail what exactly it is that you want.
you also might want to have a look at the lessons, e.g.
http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/sea ... mit=Search
Kind regards
Bernd
Re: merge two arrays
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 1:38 am
by kimberlyn
Well I just want to add the elements of tab1 into tab2
for example :
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put "a" & cr after tab1
put "b" & cr after tab1
put "c" & cr after tab1
put "d" & cr after tab2
put "e" & cr after tab2
put "f" & cr after tab2
split tab1 with cr
split tab2 with cr --It's not the best way but in my case that's what I have
and I want at the end when I print tab2
appending gives me
Re: merge two arrays
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 1:42 am
by kimberlyn
I found this way :
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put the number of elements of tab2 into var
repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines in the keys of tab1
put tab1[i] into tab2[i+var]
end repeat
Re: merge two arrays
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:42 am
by snm
The problem start if you have kes as string of characters, there are the same keys in both arrays and their values are different. You must decide what to do in such case.
Marek
Re: merge two arrays
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 8:00 am
by Newbie4
In your example, this will concatenate the contents of each element of tab2 to each element of tab1, then replace it in tab2:
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repeat with i = 1 to the number of elements of tab1
put (tab1[i] & tab2[i]) into tab2[i]
end repeat
Re: merge two arrays
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:27 am
by kimberlyn
Thanks !
Another question, how to I merge to strings ?
I have a table of strings. Each string is between 1 and 4 caracters, and I want them all to be 6 caracters long.
I've done that but it doesn't work :
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put "agf" & cr after tab1
put "b" & cr after tab1
put "cggg" & cr after tab1
split tab1 with cr
repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines in the keys of tab1
repeat while the number of char of tab[i] is not 6
put "-" after tab1[i]
end repeat
end repeat
I want
it gives me
Thanks !
Re: merge two arrays
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:53 am
by bn
it works if you name your array in the second repeat loop correctly (tab1
instead of tab and if you say "the number of chars" instead of "the number of char"
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put "agf" & cr after tab1
put "b" & cr after tab1
put "cggg" & cr after tab1
split tab1 with cr
repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines in the keys of tab1
repeat while the number of chars of tab1[i] is not 6
put "-" after tab1[i]
end repeat
end repeat
Kind regards
Bernd
Re: merge two arrays
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:53 am
by shaosean
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constant kDashes = "------"
put "agf" & cr after tab1
put "b" & cr after tab1
put "cggg" & cr after tab1
split tab1 with cr
repeat for each key tKey in tab1
put char 1 to 6 of (tab1[tKey] & kDashes) into tab1[tKey]
end repeat
ps.. you have a typo in yours which is way it probably didn't work, the repeat line you refer to tab
instead of tab1