Assoc arrays suported?

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orgos

(Posted 2005) [#1]

BMax have some thins like an Associative array?

Myarray["name"] = "john"
Myarray["lastname"] = "fox"

???

kfprimm

(Posted 2005) [#2]

u could do something like this.

Const NAME=1
Const LASTNAME=2

Myarray:String[2]

Myarray[NAME]="john"
Myarray[LASTNAME]="fox"`

Robert

(Posted 2005) [#3]

Hi Orgos,

I think what you are after is the TMap type. It is not documented, but if you open mod/brl.mod/map.mod/map.bmx you can get an idea of how it works.

It allows you to store key-value pairs which can be searched very quickly.