jvance@desire.wright.edu (03/16/91)
Does hypercard admit anything like arrays, or variables with one or
more subscripts, as in x(5), y(23,17), etc? I would dearly love to
be able to write a little script on the order of
repeat with i = 1 to 100
repeat with j = 1 to 4
put word j of line i of card field whatever into x(i,j)
end repeat
end repeat
with the understanding that hypercard would allow me to use the
expressions x(1,1), x(1,2), x(1,3), x(1,4), x(2,1), ... , x(100,4)
as variable names.
If it matters, I do not have hypercard 2.
If you can help me with this one, please reply to jvance@wsu (bitnet)
or jvance@desire.wright.edu (internet). _Thanks_!
Jim Vance mg2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Andrew Gelman) (03/18/91)
> 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
msriram@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (M G SriRam) (03/18/91)
another way to fake arrays is to use the do command. eg, suppose you want to initialize 10 variables of the form X1.. X10 to 0. you could do the folowing: repeat with n = 1 to 10 do "put 0 into X"&n end repeat the X(*) or X[*] sytnax for arrays cannot be achieved because the only symbols allowed in variable names are letters, digits and the underscore. hope this is useful. sriram