SC: Array and Hashtable/Hashmap/Dictionary

[Filehero]

Idea for Arrays 1.0

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toarray()

  Returns an array for a tokenized string.

Syntax

  toarray(string, [separator="|"])

  string Tokenized source string.

  separator Separator of tokens; defaults to "|".
  If empty ("") then the string is separated by char creating a char array.

  return The array. If the string passed is empty, the array returned will have a length = 0.

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tostring()

  Returns a tokenized string for an array.

Syntax

  tostring(array, [separator="|"])

  array The array to be converted into a tokenized string.

  separator Separator used for tokenization; defaults to "|".
  If empty ("") then all array elements simply are concatenated.

  return The string. If the array passed has no element, the empty string "" is returned.

This way we would get to complementary adapters to the existing SC API, thus you can focus on the syntax changes.

FH

[admin]

Yes, that would be useful.

I would probably prefix all array related functions, like this:
array_tostring()
array_fromstring()

[Filehero]

array_tostring()
array_fromstring()

Would be ok for me.

[PeterH]

Yes: this form of names seems meaningful to me, too.

[Filehero]

[admin]

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