User talk:ANSI Soderstrom/Simple LSL Array (Associative)

Thoughts

1. Why are you supporting multiple values for a key? It looks like you only return the last one with GET. PUT updates all of them which sorta makes having them pointless.
2. Where is the REMOVE function?
3. This is not what I think of when i think of "array" nor a simple one at that, what you have here is an " associative array".

-- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 06:24, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

A quick implementation

It's possible that it's not the best way to implement the loop condition. But it's clever. I've also added support for setting and removing multiple keys at a time. This is for convenience and there is little to no performance gain from doing this vs individual calls. I've checked the logic, it should work, I haven't tested it though. -- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 07:14, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

<lsl>list GET(list ARRAY, list KEY) {

   if(llGetListLength(KEY) == 1) {
       integer position = llListFindList(ARRAY, KEY) + 1;
       if(position) {
           return llList2List(ARRAY, position, position);
       }
   }
   return [];

}

list PUT(list ARRAY, list KEY, list VALUE){

   integer len = -llGetListLength(KEY);
   if(len == -llGetListLength(VALUE) && len) {
       integer position;
       do {
           list temp = [];
           list Key = llList2List(KEY, len, len);
           while((position & 1) == !(position = llListFindList(ARRAY, Key) + 1)) {
               temp = temp + llList2List(ARRAY, 0, position);
               ARRAY = llDeleteSubList(ARRAY, 0, position);
           }
           if(position) {
               ARRAY = temp + llListReplaceList(ARRAY, llList2List(VALUE, len, len), position, position);
           } else {
               ARRAY = temp + ARRAY + Key + llList2List(VALUE, len, len);
           }
       } while( ++len );
   }
   return ARRAY;

}

list REMOVE(list ARRAY, list KEY){

   integer len = -llGetListLength(KEY);
   if(len) {
       do {
           list temp = [];
           integer position;
           list Key = llList2List(KEY, len, len);
           while((position & 1) == !(position = llListFindList(ARRAY, Key) + 1)) {
               temp += llList2List(ARRAY, 0, position);
               ARRAY = llDeleteSubList(ARRAY, 0, position);
           }
           if(position) {
               ARRAY = temp + llDeleteSubList(ARRAY, position - 1, position);
           } else {
               ARRAY = temp + ARRAY;
           }
       } while( ++len );
   }
   return ARRAY;

} </lsl> -- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 07:14, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

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Answers

Hi Strife. I expected you ;)

Question : # Why are you supporting multiple values for a key? It looks like you only return the last one with GET. PUT updates all of them which sorta makes having them pointless.
Answer : Its not only a support for multiple values for a key. Its the posibillity that a KEY can have the same spelling like a VALUE
e.g. KEY1 = TEST1 / TEST1 = TEST2 / KEY2 = TEST1 / TEST2 = TEST1 / TEST3 = KEY1
^^^try to get the right values with your GET-Method and u will see what i mean ;)

Question : # Where is the REMOVE function? Answer : Uh Oh. Please give me few hours ;)

Question : # This is not what I think of when i think of "array" nor a simple one at that, what you have here is an " associative array". Answer : U win !