Hashes of Arrays, who'd have 'em

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Baph

It's a reference to the 4 letter word...

Of course, silly me - you want sweet, salt, natural or cheese popcorn ?

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Of course, silly me - you want sweet, salt, natural or cheese popcorn ?

for (i=0; i<boxes.length; i++) if (boxes[i] == sweet) System.out.println("I'll take that one...");


Sorry 2mths, couldn't resist.

Hmm not entirely sure I understand what you're getting with that last Baph

For me it'd have been something like...

perl -e while (@boxes ) { if ($_ =~ /sw/) { print "$_ for me please!" } }

Or some such (there being a _lot_ of different ways you could approach that)

As for too many asterisk, I didn't but asterisks there and there were just enough to disguise something similar to bar stewards.

The 'thing' (graphing module) I'm trying to use requires that the plot data be fed to it as an array of arrays (I think). Said data is coming from a db query. So I'm trying to populate the different arrays on the fly. That took me long enough to work out. Then I realised that I needed another array containing my x-axis values. In trying that a) I broke what I had got working and b) my brain fell over so I swore at you lot and went home.

I could do what I need to do by writing a very namby pampy script which runs several queries and processes the output of each to prepare my data. But I'm trying to develop my scripting and write something a little more mature that does it in one go (trivial to some I'm sure).

Anyway I'm home now and about to kill some sprites in CoD4 till I feel better.

Originally Posted by 2mths

Hmm not entirely sure I understand what you're getting with that last Baph

For me it'd have been something like...

for ($i=0, $i<$totalSweets, $i++) {

Linguistic difference.

However, why bother looping around totalSweets? If you've named the variable properly, surely that's an array containing all boxes of sweet popcorn? Why not just treat it as a FIFO structure instead of looping?

Pardon?

Originally Posted by Grinch

Pardon?

Nothing to do with cake, don't worry.

Originally Posted by Baph

Linguistic difference.

However, why bother looping around totalSweets? If you've named the variable properly, surely that's an array containing all boxes of sweet popcorn? Why not just treat it as a FIFO structure instead of looping?

I didn't mean to post what you saw - that was my first error. The second was misunderstanding what you were getting at, I subsequently worked out more of what you'd done by reading the quote of SK for some context.

No idea what about FIFO structures (I can work out what it stands for but that's not helping) so looping is all I've got.

[timwilky]

What is the problem, I cut my teeth coding assembly language on VAX computers many years ago. so multiple levels of indirection with offset etc. piece of ****.

You then get to c type pointer arrays, so effectively create multi dimensional arrays and multi size etc.

You them move into things like java collections and arrays etc. But now you no longer have those nice pointers that allowed you to do fancy tricks, like stepping through arrays etc using pointer arithmetic.

So explain what is doing your head in, and we will try to help.

but first read the manual young man, then read it again. there is nothing worse than getting somebody to show you how, because you will just not remember.

[timwilky]

BTW FIFO = first in first out, as opposed to last in first out etc.

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by timwilky

BTW FIFO = first in first out, as opposed to last in first out etc.

AKA a queue to us oldies.