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Re: Referencing Nested Sequences

• Posted by Igor Kachan <kinz at peterlink.ru> Jun 07, 2003
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Hello pblonner:

> I am new to Euphoria but find it an exciting language.

Welcome!

> One point that bothers me however 
> is as follows - to access a sequence 
> nested in a sequence you must make the full
> "path" reference each time if you are to change
> any values. You can not simply copy a reference
> to the inner sequence - otherwise a
> copy of the entire sequence would be made.
> 
> e.g   for i = 1 to 10 do
>             nested[9][3][i] = 0
>         end for
> 
> if it done as
>       SubList = nested[9][3]
>     for i = 1 to 10 do
>             SubList[i] = 0
>     end for

[snip]

Try please:

sequence SubList
SubList = nested[9][3]

for i = 1 to 
  length(SubList) -- my be 10, if length(SubList)>=10
do SubList[i] = 0
end for

nested[9][3] = SubList

Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru