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| From | Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays |
| Date | 2013-06-23 16:02 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <kq72c0$v1k$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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Victor Porton wrote: > Rui Maciel wrote: > >> Victor Porton wrote: >> >>> But what is the best way to do this if we want a MULTILEVEL associative >>> array? (indexed by first key "a", then by key "b", etc.) >>> >>> I want to discuss the most elegant, short, and practical solution for >>> this kind of problems. >> >> I don't know if it's the most elegant, but if you wish to have multiple >> keys map to a value then you can resort to a tuple containing both keys >> as your map's key. >> >> That approach is very common. For example, with the "dictionary of keys" >> matrix data structure, the matrix elements are stored in a key:value pair >> whose key is a (row, column) tuple. > > It seems you have misunderstood me. I ask about forming a *multilevel* > associative array like: > > [1:[2:[[a:1, b:2, c:3],...]]] > > where "1" a value of the key "a", "2" is a value of the key "b", etc. > What do you mean by "multi-level"? For example, from your example, by multi- level do you mean that in order to access the value in the a:1 key value pair, the map goes something like: example_map[1][2][a] == 1 ? Rui Maciel
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Generating multi-level associative arrays Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-06-22 21:19 +0300
Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 08:30 +0100
Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-06-23 15:16 +0300
Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 16:02 +0100
Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-06-23 18:06 +0300
Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 18:52 +0100
Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-06-24 14:52 +0300
Re: Generating multi-level associative arrays Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-06-24 14:53 +0300
Solved: Generating multi-level associative arrays Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2013-06-24 20:36 +0300
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