Solved: Generating multi-level associative arrays

From	Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Solved: Generating multi-level associative arrays
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Date	2013-06-24 20:36 +0300
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Victor Porton wrote:

> Suppose we have an array each element of which is an associative array:
> 
> [[a:1, b:2, c:3], ...]
> 
> I want to create an associative array out of it, indexed by values of some
> key (such as the key "a"):
> 
> [1:[[a:1, b:2, c:3], ...], ...]
> 
> (a value "1" of the key may be met more than once, thus with the value "1"
> of the key "a" is associated an array [[a:1, b:2, c:3], ...] not just
> [a:1, b:2, c:3].
> 
> It is easy to program in any modern language.
> 
> 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.
> 
> We could even write practically usable libraries of real code to do this
> kind of things.
> 
> Note that in fact I use PHP.

I've written PHP code for this:

http://portonsoft.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/php-multilevel-array/

-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org

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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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