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Re: [poll] all element reference

• Posted by Salix <salix at freem?il.h?> Aug 21, 2007
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Juergen Luethje wrote:
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If you suggest me to write a function for it then I should 
agree that it's not a demanding work. On the other hand 
[*] seems to be more flexibe and handy. Just try to compare 
the number of characters hit for the example below. 

But I think the Patrick Barnes email in the same discussion 
should make me thinking. My justification for this feature 
was a custom find() situation that I meet regularly. But due 
to the memory requirement [*] might not be efficient at all. 

-- some more example
constant x={
	{"John",1,74},
	{"Mary",5},
	{"Andy",2,68},
	{"Suse",7,62},
	{"Jack",5,84}}

-- following line would print {1,5,2,7,5}
? x[*][2]

-- following line would print "oanua"
? x[*][1][2]

-- following line would print {'J',1,74}
? x[1][*][1]

Cheers,

Salix