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Insert value to Associative Array

pmroz — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:27:45 GMT

Hello all,

The following code works in JMP 9 but not JMP 8:

Basically I need to put a value into a particular position in an associative array. It appears that in JMP 8, to build an associative array you need to insert values sequentially with INSERT INTO.

I have a workaround but I would really like to use this syntax, which is much more convenient.

Thanks,
Peter

Re: Insert value to Associative Array

mattf — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:30:41 GMT

Hi:

How about:

Re: Insert value to Associative Array

pmroz — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:03:29 GMT

Hi Matt,

That doesn't work - I want put the string "hello world" into the list pointed to by x["one"], in the first position. What I want to end up with is:

print(x["one"])

{"hello world", "a", "b"}

I have a workaround in place - I was curious if there was a JMP version 8 syntax that I wasn't aware of. The syntax I showed works in version 9 but not 8.

Regards,
Peter

Re: Insert value to Associative Array

mattf — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:58:29 GMT

Yes,

Now I see:
The below works - but coincidenently Insert replaces the first record - does order matter?
<-
x = associative array();
x["one"] = {"", "a", "b"};
x["two"] = {"", "d", "e"};

print(x);

newx = Remove(x, "one");
newx << Insert("Hello World", "a", "b");

print(newx);
-->

produces
x
Associative Array({{"one", {"", "a", "b"}}, {"two", {"", "d", "e"}}})

newx
Associative Array({{"Hello World", "a"}, {"two", {"", "d", "e"}}})

Bset,
-Matt