[Implemented] Associative Arrays

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:12 pm

Karbon,

Are you aware of the SRod's Hash library?

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=24683&

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:12 pm

Yes, I saw it yesterday.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:12 pm

You simple can't do this with an array, fast or slow : 

Name.s = TheSettings("name")

But why would you want to do that?

Flype · Post by **Flype** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:45 pm

Trond,

Did you ever programmed in PHP ?

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:05 pm

Flype · Post by **Flype** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:19 pm

So ?

even in PHP, you do not use them ?

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:55 pm

Flype · Post by **Flype** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:35 pm

ok - that's what i call freedom

AND51 · Post by **AND51** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:57 pm

I would also appreciate "associateive Arrays" (Hashes) as known from Perl or shown in the example code.

naw · Post by **naw** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:54 pm

I miss Associative Arrays from Unix Shell Scripting. I dunno maybe they are much slower than regular Arrays. But does it really matter?

If you need speed and sequential addressing use XXX(1) - XXX(99).
If you want descriptive names Associative Arrays rule...

For most Applications speed doesnt really matter - Most Windows servers CPUs are only 5% utilised anyhow. So you spend hours optinmising code to run on a machine that for 95% of the time has nothing to do....

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:51 pm

An associative array can make some complicated stuff much faster by using the 'Orcache Manoeuvre'

http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=33958